{"id":623,"date":"2024-08-09T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=623"},"modified":"2024-08-09T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:26:08","slug":"video-amnesty-intl-slams-nlc-attack-dss-denies-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/de\/video-amnesty-intl-slams-nlc-attack-dss-denies-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"(VIDEO) Amnesty Int&#8217;l Slams NLC Attack, DSS Denies Involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amnesty Int&amp;apos;l Slams NLC Attack, DSS Denies Involvement\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cg_8tAaxI-c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Country Director of Amnesty International, Isa Sanusi, has condemned the invasion of the headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Abuja on Wednesday.<br \/>\nHe disclosed this in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The raid, which took place on Wednesday night, was called a &#8220;sinister and calculated attack&#8221; with the intention of frightening the labour organization.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Statement, security personnel during the raid ransacked the NLC bookshop, confiscating materials and claiming they were used to incite and organize recent protests.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International emphasised that Nigeria must respect and protect the rights of trade unions under international human rights laws.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Department of States Service has refuted reports claiming that its officers had raided the headquarters of the Nigerian Labour Congress in Abuja.<br \/>\nThe denial comes following allegations by NLC, that the Service had sent armed men to its office, and that they had carted away some documents.<\/p>\n<p>According to the union, the operatives stormed the Labour House around 8:30 pm on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe NLC said it was not immediately able to ascertain all the things taken away from its offices.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a response on Thursday, the Spokesperson for the Service, Peter Afunanya, said its personnel were not responsible for the ransacking of the labour union\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Swifteradio.com<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Country Director of Amnesty International, Isa Sanusi, has condemned the invasion of the headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Abuja on Wednesday. He disclosed this in a statement.&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}