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Nigerian Security Operatives Abduct Kaduna Journalist

February 14, 2013

A source close to Sheik Ibraheem Zazzaky, the leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria has sent a distress call to SaharaReporters stating that security operatives  earlier today abducted Musa Muhammad Awwal, editor of the Shiite-based Hausa vernacular newspaper, Almizan around 4am this morning in Kaduna.

A source close to Sheik Ibraheem Zazzaky, the leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria has sent a distress call to SaharaReporters stating that security operatives  earlier today abducted Musa Muhammad Awwal, editor of the Shiite-based Hausa vernacular newspaper, Almizan around 4am this morning in Kaduna.

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Awwal was arrested in his Rigasa, Kaduna home and taken to an unknown destination by a group of armed operatives of the Nigerian secret police.

It would be recalled that Awwal and his reporter Aliyu Saleh were arrested and detained starting from December 24 2012 for one week.

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