{"id":70773,"date":"2019-12-07T04:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T03:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=70773"},"modified":"2019-12-07T04:03:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T03:03:21","slug":"u-s-senator-expresses-outrage-over-sowores-rearrest-promises-high-level-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/u-s-senator-expresses-outrage-over-sowores-rearrest-promises-high-level-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S Senator Expresses Outrage Over Sowore\u2019s Rearrest, Promises High Level Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1652218213972573436\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">Senator Bob Menendez, a ranking member of the Unite States Senate\u2019s Foreign Relations Committee, has condemned the rearrest of rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, on Friday at the Federal High Court, Abuja.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<p>Sowore, who was first arrested on August 3, 2019 by operatives of the Department of State Services for calling on Nigerians to take to the streets in peaceful demonstrations but only released on Thursday evening despite two court orders directing his freedom much earlier, was rearrested on Friday by the DSS.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, Menendez, who had been involved in attempts to pressure the Nigerian Government, promised US intervention in the matter over Sowore&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI am outraged by the blatant harassment of Omoyele Sowore, an activist and journalist whose only crime appears to be exercising his right to free expression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a concerted effort to secure his release on behalf of the Sowore family living in New Jersey, my office has been working closely with the State Department as Mr Sowore\u2019s case languished following his arbitrary arrest back in August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we continue to seek immediate answers about Sowore\u2019s treatment and conditions in jail, I will be further engaging directly with US Ambassador, Mary Beth Leonard, in Abuja to raise this case at the highest levels of the Nigerian Government so that the Buhari administration gets the message that we are committed to defending Sowore\u2019s rights and securing his release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis blatant miscarriage of justice is symptomatic of closing political and media space in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Bob Menendez, a ranking member of the Unite States Senate\u2019s Foreign Relations Committee, has condemned the rearrest of rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, on Friday at the Federal High Court,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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