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  "continent": "africa",
  "region": "Western Africa",
  "press_freedom": null,
  "incident_count": 1,
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      "slug": "detention_and_violence",
      "name": "Detention and violence",
      "count": 1
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        "slug": "1995-nigeria-abacha-journalists-tribunal",
        "title": "Nigeria's military government convicts journalists by special tribunal over coup-plot reporting",
        "occurred_on": "1995-07-27",
        "occurred_on_precision": "month",
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        "jurisdiction": "NG",
        "level": "national",
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          "secrets_and_espionage_laws"
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        "issue_of_the_day": "An alleged March 1995 coup plot against General Sani Abacha's military government, which the journalists had reported on.",
        "outcome": "reversed",
        "outcome_on": "1998-06-15",
        "outcome_note": "The journalists were released in stages after General Abacha's death in June 1998 under his successor's government; their convictions were not vacated in the sources reviewed.",
        "era": "1990s",
        "granularity": "anchor",
        "status": "historical",
        "case_count": 0,
        "summary": "A special military tribunal convicted four Nigerian journalists as accessories to a supposed 1995 coup plot after they reported on it, sentencing them to lengthy prison terms with no right of appeal, under the military government of General Sani Abacha.",
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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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