# Outliving Abacha: Six Nigerian journalists' prison stories

Committee to Protect Journalists, 1999-03-01

- Address: https://www.refworld.org/reference/countryrep/cpj/1999/en/56364
- Kind: reference
- Last checked: 2026-09-23
- Archived copy: none yet

## Cited by

- [Nigeria's military government convicts journalists by special tribunal over coup-plot reporting](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1995-nigeria-abacha-journalists-tribunal)
- [Claim 246: The tribunal convicted the journalists as accessories after the fact to treason for their reporting.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/246)
- [Claim 247: A tribunal official said the convictions were meant to deter other Nigerian journalists.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/247)
- [Claim 248: A security official said the reporting had caused security problems and discredited the coup allegation.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/248)

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