A Nigerian journalist charged with criminal defamation for reporting on what a lawmaker had described as a ‘genocide’ of Christians has been cleared after a five-year legal battle.
Luka Binniyat, a Kaduna-based journalist, had been consistently reporting on the persecution of Christians in Southern Kaduna.
In November 2021, Binniyat wrote an article for the US-based Epoch Times in which he quoted a Nigerian legislator who accused another lawmaker of ‘covering up’ what he described as a ‘genocide’ against Christians in Kaduna.
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