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    Authorities Shut Down Radio Program of Gloria Ballason, Lawyer and Human Rights Activist

    • Date of Occurrence
      December 1, 2016
    • State/Country
      Kaduna State, Nigeria
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    Gloria Ballason, Lawyer and Human rights activists had her radio program ‘House of Justice’ that airs on Liberty Radio, Kaduna, – where she uses the instrumentality of the law to drive human rights issues – shut down by state authorities who were uncomfortable with her radio program that allows the law to interface with the public and also seeks to ensure accountability for human rights violations by state authorities.

    Gloria Ballason is involved in other issues that borders on human rights violations by repressive state agents, including the cases of late Emmanuel Kwasu a Nigerian Defence Academy Cadet Officer who was murdered by deliberate negligence and overzealousness of NDA staff and Reuben Buhari,then Media aide to the former minister for environment who was harassed and detained by the Nigeria Police in March 2014 because he posted pictures of the 2013 Bondong killings in Southern Kaduna which the state authorites allegedly percieve as ‘inciting’. According to Gloria, the thing about wanting to shut down civic spaces in Kaduna state is real.

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    • Date of Occurrence

      2016-12-01

    • State/Country

      Kaduna State, Nigeria

    • Perpetrator

      Kaduna State Authorities

    • Legal Foundation

      The rights implicated in this incident are the rights to expression and right to life as granted in the constitution.

    • Source

      http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/weekly/index.php/new-news/21063-my-cadet-son-s-death-must-halt-negligence-at-nda

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    • North West
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    • Press Freedom
    • Right to Free Speech
    • Right to Freedom Thought
    • Right to Life
    Gender of Victim(s)
    • Female
    Mode of Attacks
    • Acts of Intimidation
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