Polish students detained in Nigeria released
The African studies students from the University of Warsaw (UW) who were recently detained in Nigeria for their participation in anti-government protests have been released, the foreign ministry reported on Wednesday.
The individuals detained were six Polish students accompanied by their lecturer, who had planned to spend the entire month of August at Bayero University in the state of Kano, in the north of the country. They inadvertently became involved in anti-government protests that were taking place in the country.
In the video published by the ministry on the X platform, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski informed the families that the students are back at the campus in Kano and thanked them for their smooth cooperation.
On August 7, Reuters reported that the Nigerian services arrested seven Poles for raising Russian flags during recent anti-government protests.
Later, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna told PAP that, according to his information, the situation was entirely different than initially thought.
"This is a group of African studies students who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time," Szejna said. (PAP)
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