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Civic Space Incidents Database

Find information on incidents of closing civic space and human rights violations in Nigeria & the West African sub-region



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#EndBadGovernanceProtest: FG Blocks Accounts of #EndBadGovernance Sponsors, Places them on Watchlist


Aug
06

Togo Journalist Apollinaire Mewenemesse Detained for Defamation


Apr
01

Police Investigate Nigeria’s Foundation for Investigative Journalism after Corruption Coverage


Jun
05

Hisbah Arrests Trust TV Journalist Over Social Media Post


May
15

TakeItBack National Coordinator, Sanyaolu Juwon Arrested In Lagos Amid Clampdown On Planned June 12 Peaceful Protests


Jun
11

Popular Skit Maker Laments, Spends Four Days In Nigerian Air Force’s Detention Over Tiktok Videos


Feb
20

Nigerian Journalist Saint Mienpamo Onitsha Charged with Cybercrime


Oct
10

In First for Togo, RSF Identifies Spyware on Phones of Two Togolese Journalists


Jan
23

Woman Charged with Blasphemy Awaits Trial


May
20

Recent Incidents


SSS Detains Nigerian Journalist Adejuwon Soyinka


Aug
25

Court Permits Police To Remand 124 #EndBadGovernance Protesters For 60 Days


Aug
25

Court Freezes Bank Accounts of 32 #EndBadGovernance Protesters


Aug
25

Police Cybercrime Unit Grills, Releases Journalist Fisayo Soyombo on Bail


Aug
14

Police Invade Committee for the Defence of Human Rights Office in Lagos


Aug
09

#EndBadGovernanceProtest: FG Blocks Accounts of #EndBadGovernance Sponsors, Places them on Watchlist


Aug
06

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