Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and four other activists have been arraigned before a Magistrate’s Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on Monday.
Punch reports that they were earlier arrested for holding a protest against bad governance on New Year’s Eve in Abuja and subsequently taken to a police unit infamously known as ‘Abattoir’ in the Lokogoma area of the FCT.
It was gathered that Sowore and other activists were arraigned on three charges of criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, and attempting to incite others.
The activists, however, denied the charges.
“We are currently at the Magistrate court n Wuse Zone 2 with a broken nose. Police want us sent to prison after five days in cruel detention.
“Just rest assured we are solid and undaunted until full liberation is attained! # RevolutionNow,” Sowore tweeted on Monday.
Sowore had before his arrest sent out a series of tweets calling on Nigerians to join him on a protest against the regime of president Mohammadu Buhari.