Mrs Judith Asuni, the American-born Nigerian facing trial in Nigeria for espionage has been set free and told to go home. The peace worker was set free along with her co-accused German journalists, Florian Alexander Opitz and Andy Lehmann, as well as her Nigerian colleague, Danjuma Saidu.
Their release was announced in the court earlier today by Justice Binta Nyako after the country’s minister of Justice filed a nole prosequi and withdrew the charges against them.
They were seized by men of the State Security Services in September and put in detention because the two German journalists had been found taking photographs in the turbulent Niger Delta region. Although Asuni insisted on her innocence, she was accused of bringing the men into Nigeria by using false claims to obtain visa for them and that they were all spying for some international interests.
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