{"id":9857,"date":"2024-11-06T15:27:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T15:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/06\/nigeria-court-frees-119-protesters-some-facing-death-penalty-after-government-drops-charges\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T15:27:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T15:27:29","slug":"nigeria-court-frees-119-protesters-some-facing-death-penalty-after-government-drops-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/06\/nigeria-court-frees-119-protesters-some-facing-death-penalty-after-government-drops-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria court frees 119 protesters, some facing death penalty, after government drops charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm34kacmy004p25p9broqcow6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A Nigerian court freed 119 people including minors on Tuesday, after the authorities dropped charges against them arising from deadly protests in August against economic hardship.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm34kd7dq00073b6mdwcs55l5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The accused had faced charges including treason and inciting a military coup and had been arraigned in batches of 76 and 43 last Friday. One of the charges carried the death penalty.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm34kd7dq00083b6m13penahc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            President Bola Tinubu on Monday ordered the release of all minors detained during anti-government protests in August and dropped the charges against them.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm34kd7dq00093b6mlhem7iid@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThe case has been struck out and the 119 protesters have been released,\u201d Deji Adeyanju, counsel to the protesters, told Reuters.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm34kd7dq000a3b6m9j1vse8m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cNow we are asking for their rehabilitation and compensation by their various state governments.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm34kd7dq000b3b6mue3veyma@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The country\u2019s attorney general took over the case from the police and dropped the charges after bringing forward the matter due to be heard in January.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian court freed 119 people including minors on Tuesday, after the authorities dropped charges&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}