Olamilekan Hammed Adewale Bashiru

Gender: Male
Online Journalist

On May 13, Nigerian Department of State Security (DSS) officers arrested Bashiru, founder of the privately owned news website EaglesForeSight, after the outlet republished a report about the “alleged criminal records” of Ogun state governor Dapo Abiodun, according to Festus Ogun, Bashiru’s lawyer who spoke to CPJ by phone, and a report by the privately owned Punch news website. The article said that Abioldun was arrested for credit card fraud and forgery in the United States in 1986. Bashiru was detained at DSS headquarters in the state capital Abeokuta after going there for questioning on April 29, Ogun said. After his arrest,the DSS transferred the journalist to the state police headquarters, where he is still held without charge.

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