Nigeria detains 2 journalists over abuse story

Published December 27, 2012 4:14pm ET



LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian security forces have detained two journalists from a Hausa-language newspaper for days without charges after their publication printed stories on alleged abuses by the country’s military in its fight against a radical Islamist sect, officials said Thursday.

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