A day after a court granted them freedom, six students and a lecturer of the Madonna University, Okija, Anambra State, were on Thursday released from prison.
The students had been arrested for Facebook posts which allegedly portrayed the school in a bad light. The detained students were, however, charged for offences bordering on cybercrime. Their release from jail came after protests by activists across the country.
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