The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP have sought the intervention of the United Nations over the detention of OMOYELE SOWORE, and four others.

The Deputy Director of SERAP KOLAWOLE OLUWADARE in a statement said it has sent an urgent complaint to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention over the detention, torture and other ill-treatment of SOWORE.

SERAP said SOWORE and the four other arrested persons were activists for peacefully exercising their human rights.

This comes a day after a Magistrate Court in Abuja ordered their remand at the Kuje Correctional Centre in the nation’s capital pending when their formal bail application would be heard.

They were arraigned by the Federal Government on three charges of criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, and an attempt to incite others.