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Advancing Rights-Centered reporting on Nigeria’s Cybercrimes Act
- Occurred
- Apr 21, 2026
- Published
- Apr 21, 2026
- Source
- Access Now
Summary
Since Nigeria’s Cybercrimes Act was passed in 2015, more than two dozen journalists, human rights defenders and whistleblowers have been targeted by authorities, using overbroad prohibitions on “cyberstalking” to punish The post Advancing Rights-Centered reporting on Nigeria’s Cybercrimes Act appeared first on Access Now.
Classification
Category confidence: 80%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves legal/policy analysis of cybercrime law impact on journalists, not a specific AI safety failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8