- Organisation: The Guardian
- Case: Attack
- Culprit: police officer
- Country: Nigeria
- City: Port Harcourt
On October 26, near the Mile One police station in Port Harcourt city, a police officer used sticks to beat Adortan Romeo, a reporter and circulation officer with the Guardian, while he was on his way to the paper’s office, according to Romeo, who spoke to CPJ in a phone interview. Police detained Romeo for about 25 minutes for allegedly violating the protest-related curfew, and officers accused him and his newspaper of spreading hate against police officers and fueling the protests, Romeo told CPJ.