NIGER: Anklagad för terrorism

Moussa Tchangari har jobbat för mänskliga rättigheter i Niger sedan 1990-talet. Han leder rättighetsorganisationen Citizens’ Alternative Spaces. I december 2024 greps han och åtalades för att förespråka terrorism och för ”kriminellt samröre med terrorism”. I januari i år kom nya anklagelser och Moussa Tchangari flyttades till ett fängelse 18 mil från huvudstaden.

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General Abdourahamane Tiani
President of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland
Boulevard de la République, Niamey,
BP: 622,
Niger

Emails: [email protected], [email protected]

Dear General Abdourahamane Tiani, I am writing to express concern about the arbitrary detention of human rights defender Moussa Tchangari, secretary general of the civil society organization, ‘Citizens’ Alternative Spaces’. Three weeks before his arrest, on 12 November 2024, Moussa Tchangari criticized the decision by Niger’s interior minister to withdraw the licenses of two humanitarian nongovernmental organizations, as well as the establishment by the authorities of a terrorism database. I urge you and the authorities to ensure that Moussa Tchangari is immediately released as he is being detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his human rights, and all charges against him are dropped.

Yours sincerely,

DATUM: Skriv före 15 juli.