The OGONI 20

[mosop@gn.apc.org (The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People - UK)]

  URGENT  ALERT
  
  
  Mr. Nyieda Nasikpo, one of the 20 Ogoni activists detained at Port Harcourt
  prisons over the same allegations that provided the excuse for the judicial
  murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the 8 other activists in 1995 and who await
  similar dreadful fate, is in a critical condition at the University of Port
  Harcourt Teaching hospital.
  
  Mr. Nasikpo who has been very outspoken about the intolerable condition of
  their detention has been in solitary confinement as a punishment for his
  outspokeness from where he collapsed and was rushed to the Port Harcourt
  Teaching hospital where he is expected to undergo a surgical operation
  today (24 Sept.) for a yet to be ascertained illness.
  
  Even in his critical condition, Mr. Nasikpo has been denied access to his
  family, and MOSOP strongly fears that his life might be in grave danger,
  especially as it notes that by this period two years ago, one of the
  detainees Clement Tusima, who was hospitalised in similar circumstanced
  died, and up till now his corpse has been confiscated from his family.