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As youths affected, many were killed in the protests. Ruto's "apology" means nothing without full justice, transparent compensation for all victims, and real accountability. Vague words won't bring him back. We reject this! #JusticeForProtesters
Victims Reject Ruto Apology:
Civil society groups, survivors reject President Ruto’s apology
Groups say the President’s remarks were vague and lacked sincerity
Families demand full disclosure on compensation for victims
Questions raised over the criteria used to verify only 1,000 cases
Activists call for accountability and transparency
#CitizenExplainer
@citizentvkenya As youths affected, many were killed in the protests. Ruto's "apology" means nothing without full justice, transparent compensation for all victims, and real accountability. Vague words won't bring him back. We reject this! #JusticeForProtesters
BLOOD ON THE BALLOT: How Bola Tinubu Has Weaponised the Nigerian State Against Its Own Citizens
A sitting president. A silenced press. A body count that grows with every dissenting voice.
#TinubuMustGo #EndBadGovernance #NigeriaAccountability #JusticeForProtesters #PressedToSilence
When historians chronicle the slow asphyxiation of Nigerian democracy, they will begin in August 2024. Ten days. Peaceful protesters — young Nigerians who dared ask their government why they were hungry — took to the streets from Lagos to Kano. The government’s answer came in the form of live ammunition.
Amnesty International documented at least 24 people killed by Nigerian police during the #EndBadGovernance protests between August 1 and 10, 2024, across Borno, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, and Niger states. Those killed included 20 young people, an older person, and two children. In all cases, the victims were shot by police firing live ammunition at close range — often at the head or torso — in what investigators concluded was a deliberate intent to kill. 
That is not a protest crackdown. That is a massacre.
In Kano alone, 12 people were killed at Rijiyar Lemo and Kofar Nasarawa. In Jigawa, three more were killed at Hadejia. In Kaduna, a minor was shot dead by a soldier in Zaria. In Maiduguri, three were killed at a petrol station junction. In Niger State, at least three more were gunned down along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway. 
The Nigerian Police Force denied all of it and refused to cooperate with investigators. A year on, not a single member of the security forces has been prosecuted. Meanwhile, the protesters themselves continue to face what Amnesty International has described as sham trials in federal courts across the country. 
The Architecture of Fear
The killings were only one instrument. What Tinubu has constructed is something more comprehensive: a state apparatus designed to punish dissent before it can breathe.
In May 2024, police detained journalist Daniel Ojukwu of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism for ten days without charges, after he published an article exposing procurement fraud involving a government official. That same month, authorities arrested staff at the International Centre for Investigative Reporting on fabricated cybercrime charges, while TikTok creator Olumide Ogunsanwo — known as Seaking — was arrested within hours of posting a video criticising Tinubu and Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Activist Olamide Abiodun Thomas was detained days later over a Facebook post. 
In September 2025, the Department of State Services charged activist Omoyele Sowore under the 2024 Cybercrimes Act for anti-Tinubu posts. He spent a month in prison. Since 2017, Sowore has been arrested at least eight times by Nigerian police or the DSS. 
The law itself has been weaponised. Tinubu signed amendments to the Cybercrime Act in February 2024, and it has since become the instrument of choice for the arbitrary detention, persecution and harassment of journalists — particularly those reporting on corruption and the misuse of public funds. 
The Treason Gambit
After the August protests, the government escalated from bullets to courtrooms. Nigerian authorities charged protesters who participated in the #EndBadGovernance demonstrations with treason — a crime punishable by death. 
DSS and NIA operatives arrested Youth Rights Campaign National Coordinator Adaramoye Michael Lenin and others in the dead of night on August 5, 2024, blindfolded them, drove them around the city before dumping them in a detention facility, and held them incommunicado without revealing their whereabouts to family or lawyers. 
While in detention, some protesters were tortured and subjected to deliberate starvation, which led to the collapse of minors appearing before the Federal High Court in Abuja in November 2024. 
Children. Starved. In federal detention. For protesting hunger.
The Numbers the Government Doesn’t Want You to Count
Media Rights Agenda documented 141 attacks on journalists and citizens for online speech in Tinubu’s first two years in office. 
In 2024, Nigeria topped Africa’s list for attacks on journalists, with 76 recorded incidents in a single year. According to Human Rights Watch, the Nigerian military has committed grave human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, and incommunicado detentions. 
Opposition leaders have formally accused the Tinubu administration of weaponising anti-corruption agencies — the EFCC, the Nigeria Police, and the ICPC — to persecute political opponents under the guise of fighting corruption. 
The African Democratic Congress has placed the total death toll under Tinubu’s watch at nearly 15,000 Nigerians killed since he assumed office in 2023 — a figure that encompasses terrorist violence, farmer-herder massacres, and security force brutality, all occurring under a president who promised to “mobilise the totality of our national security assets to protect all Nigerians.” 
Digital Erasure
When the bullets and handcuffs proved insufficient, the Tinubu government turned to Silicon Valley. In August 2025, Nigerian authorities orchestrated the removal of 59 million pieces of content and the shutdown of 13.5 million accounts across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, Google, and Microsoft. The following month, a DSS official formally demanded that Twitter remove a tweet by Sowore that was described as “disparaging” Tinubu, warning of “sweeping measures” if the platform refused. 
A Pattern, Not an Aberration
None of this is accidental. It is the governing philosophy of a man who forged his political identity through the control of Lagos — its courts, its markets, its police, its streets. What Lagos witnessed for two decades, Nigeria now inherits.
The question is not whether Bola Tinubu has weaponised the Nigerian state against its own people. The record answers that definitively.
The question is whether the international community — the FBI, the UK Serious Fraud Office, the UN Human Rights Council, the ICC — will continue to look away while a government uses live ammunition to answer hunger, and treason charges to answer peaceful protest.
History, and the families of 24 buried Nigerians, are watching.
The author is President of Worldview International and writes on Nigerian governance and accountability.
ଇରାନରେ ୧୯ ବର୍ଷୀୟ କୁସ୍ତିଯୋଦ୍ଧା ଓ ଅନ୍ୟ ୨ ଜଣଙ୍କୁ ସର୍ବସାଧାରଣରେ ଫାଶି
#Sambad #IranProtests #HumanRights #JusticeForProtesters #wrestler #iran
https://t.co/8JWznQgb5O
Here’s a concise English comment you could use:
"Protesters in Ilam took justice into their own hands, eliminating Colonel Mahdi Rahimi, responsible for killing dozens. The regime tried to cover it up as an accident, but the truth came out. #IranProtests #JusticeForProtesters"
If you want, I can also draft an even snappier, more social-media-ready version under 140 characters. Do you want me to do that?
इंडिया गेट पर प्रदर्शनकारी के साथ पुलिस की बर्बरता अस्वीकार्य है।
लोकतंत्र में विरोध का अधिकार कुचला नहीं जा सकता।
अत्यधिक बल प्रयोग करने वालों पर कड़ी कार्रवाई हो।
#JusticeForProtesters
If CNN’s findings are true, this is horrifying.A woman president @SuluhuSamia overseeing fatal police shootings& signs of mass graves against young protesters?This is a stain on Tanzania’s democracy.The world must not stay silent. #TanzaniaMassacre #JusticeForProtesters #Africa
Geolocated videos from the scenes, audio forensic analysis of the shots fired and first-hand accounts from witnesses and victims document the brutality unleashed on young demonstrators following the re-election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan – who claimed she won with 98% of the vote on October 29 after barring her chief rivals from the presidential race. https://t.co/aYUhkIjyjx
Absolutely shocking! 😡
Women demanding clean air detained from India Gate & being taken to Narela after 6 PM.
@DelhiPolice, why move peaceful protesters to the border? How will their safety be guaranteed?! 🚨
#RightToBreathe #DelhiPollution #JusticeForProtesters
ہم یہ سمجھنے سے قاصر ہیں کہ عوام کی آواز بلند ہوتے ہی طاقت کا استعمال کیوں شروع کر دیا جاتا ہے؟
کیا مسائل کا حل صرف گولیوں کے زور پر ہی ممکن ہے؟
انسانی جان کی حرمت سب سے مقدم ہے — مسائل انصاف اور مکالمے سے حل کیے جائیں، ظلم و جبر سے نہیں۔
#JusticeForProtesters #NoToViolence
#SonamWangchuk Demands Judicial Probe Into 4 Protester Deaths in Leh, Vows Jail Stay Until Justice"
#Leh #JusticeForProtesters
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@lokmat @DGPMaharashtra @PMOIndia @CMOMaharashtra @PIBHomeAffairs @AmitShah
पोलीस उपाधीक्षक अनंत कुलकर्णी यांनी आंदोलकाच्या कमरेत मारलेली लाथ म्हणजे कायद्याचा आणि लोकशाहीचा अपमान आहे. नागरी हक्कांवर असा हल्ला अमान्य आहे. तात्काळ कारवाई करा! #PoliceBrutality #Jalna #JusticeForProtesters
We Condemn the brutal arrest of peaceful protesters at stanbic Bank today! The police's violent response to those standing up against EACOP is unacceptable. We demand justice and accountability! #JusticeForProtesters #StopEACOP"
Former LSK President Eric Theuri slams the government for charging protesters and activists like Boniface Mwangi with "terrorism charges" over June 25 demos, calling it "ridiculous" and baseless. Warns of escalating public anger due to misuse of law. #JusticeForProtesters #Kenya
Guys hand NEVER went to the officers pepper spray gun like he claims when you watch the video. @TMZ #EndPoliceViolence #JusticeForProtesters #PoliceBrutality
Cop Caught on Video Punching Protester in Cincinnati Anti-ICE Protest https://t.co/Ph657qpWUq
State power should protect lives, not destroy them.
Listening costs nothing.
Killing the youth costs everything.
#GenZVoices
#KenyaProtests
#RejectStateViolence
#YouthPower
#ListenToThePeople
#JusticeForProtesters
#NoToGoons
#KenyaDeservesBetter
Opposition Demands Ruto’s Resignation. Read more: https://t.co/5zTjneouuS
#RutoResign #KenyaProtests #SabaSaba #JusticeForProtesters #AffinityTrends #AffinityTrendsKE #KenyaPolitics
@EmmanuelMacron @WilliamsRuto Macron and "his" besties.... William Ruto is now part of the Click😂😂💔🔙 #StopAbductionsKe2025 #WilliamRutoMustResign #JusticeForBonifaceKariuki #justiceforalbertochieng #JusticeForProtesters
Embassies to Ruto: Protect Kenya’s right to peaceful assembly! No more “goons” or unmarked vehicles disrupting demos. Honour the 60 lives lost in 2024 protests. #JusticeForProtesters #WednesdayIsWednesday #SiriNiNumbers #25thJune
WE CONDEMN THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT'S DRACONIAN APPROACH TO DISSENT! PROTESTERS PROSECUTED FOR TREASON WHILE CRIMINALS ARE REHABILITATED? WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE DISMISSAL OF ALL TRUMPED-UP CHARGES & RESPECT FOR CITIZENS' RIGHTS! #JusticeForProtesters
#FreeThemAll
#HumanRightsMatter
Strongly condemn the police lathi charge on peaceful protesters in Bhatyas,Bhalessa. Who were protesting for road connectivity. This shameful act shows how authorities silence the people fighting for their basic rights like roads and water.
#JusticeForProtesters
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