Committee to Protect Journalists: Nigerian Journalist Kofi Bartels Says Police Beat Him, Threatened Him With Sexual Assault
June 06, 2019
June 06, 2019
NEW YORK, June 6 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news:
Nigerian authorities must investigate and hold accountable the police officers responsible for allegedly assaulting and threatening journalist Kofi Bartels, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On June 5, a group of at least five police officers punched and kicked Bartels, a reporter with the privately owned Nigeria Info radio station, beat him on the knees with pieces of woo . . .
Nigerian authorities must investigate and hold accountable the police officers responsible for allegedly assaulting and threatening journalist Kofi Bartels, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On June 5, a group of at least five police officers punched and kicked Bartels, a reporter with the privately owned Nigeria Info radio station, beat him on the knees with pieces of woo . . .