Hundreds of Nigerian protesters are gathering outside the offices of human rights group Amnesty International in the capital, Abuja, for a third day, reports the BBC’s Chris Ewokor.
The members of the Global Peace and Life Rescue Initiative are demanding that the organisation leaves Nigeria as they say the human rights watchdog is biased against the Nigerian military.
They say that Amnesty investigations into the behaviour of the army is aimed at demoralising the soldiers while they are engaged in trying to defeat the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
In its annual report Amnesty says the military continue to “carry out arbitrary arrests, detentions, ill-treatment and extrajudicial executions of people suspected of being Boko Haram fighters”.
Today sees the end of the protesters 72-hour deadline for Amnesty to go. It is not clear what will happen if the organisation does not leave.
