The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has condemned the Federal High Court of Nigeria over the prolonged detention of Citizen Omoyele Sowore just as it alleged that the courts may have succumbed to the avalanche of psychological warfare using the anti-graft bodies and security forces by the central government to diminish and cripple the constitutional independence of the judiciary.

HURIWA said there that is no possible justifiable reasons for the untold psychological and physical torture being faced by the publisher of Saharareporters.com, Mr. Sowore, only because he is alleged to have masterminded a peaceful and constructive civil Rights action they decided to call RevolutionNow.

HURIWA said in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja: "The detention of the activist alongside many other protesters rounded up all across Nigeria following a brutal crackdown by armed police operatives is a grave set-back that has adversely affected the enjoyment of the constitutionally guaranteed freedoms enshrined in various international and local statutes just as the rights group absolutely condemned the cowardice of the Courts to continuously deny bail to the Nigerian citizen even when the exercise of bail is at the discretion of the judges and not subject to the whims and caprices of a fast emerging dictatorship in Abuja Nigeria."