Tag: Cybercrimes Act

SERAP, Editors demand urgent reforms to Cybercrimes Act over crackdown on free speech

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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and the Nigerian Guild of Editors have called for immediate reforms to Nigeria’s Cybercrimes Act, citing its misuse to target journalists, bloggers, activists, and opposition voices.   In a joint statement issued on Sunday, Kolawole Oluwadare of SERAP and Dr. Iyobosa Uwugiaren of the Editors’ Guild urged President Bola Tinubu to halt the weaponization of the Act, release all individuals detained under its controversial provisions, and uphold constitutional guarantees of free expression.   The groups condemned the growing use of arbitrary arrests, strategic…

Cybercrimes Act will Be Amended —FG

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The Federal Government has stated that the Federal Ministry of Justice is committed to pursuing the amendment of the Cybercrimes Act, which many lawyers, journalists and activists have considered repressive, unconstitutional and illegal. This was stated today by Mr. Terlumun George Tyendezwa, Head, Cybercrimes Prosecution Unit, Federal Ministry of Justice, at a Media Interactive Session on the ‘Constitutionality and Legality of the Cybercrimes Act in Nigeria’, organized by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in collaboration with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USA. At the Media Interactive Session…