Nigeria is under military dictatorship again.

Nigeria’s army chief must stop intimidating a news website and drop defamation charges, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday.

Its statement comes after plainclothes police on Thursday detained Premium Times’ publisher Dapo Olorunyomi and reporter Evelyn Okakwu for several hours, acting on a criminal complaint filed by chief of army staff Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai. They were released on condition they attend a court hearing to charge them with defamation.

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