Leaflet in support of H.R. 1786, the Nigerian Democracy Act, which would impose the first economic sanctions on the Nigerian military dictatorship. Thousands of Nigerians, including a democratically elected President, have been imprisoned without trial, and its democratic constitution has been suspended. The sanctions include bans on new U.S. corporate investment, arms sales, and direct air travel; denial of U.S. economic aid except human rights and democracy programs; a freeze on personal assets of regime members; opposition to IMF (International Monetary Fund and World Bank loans; and a cut-off of U.S. trade loans and guarantees. The leaflet lists Congressional co-sponsors along with Reps....
Leaflet in support of H.R. 1786, the Nigerian Democracy Act, which would impose the first economic sanctions on the Nigerian military dictatorship. Thousands of Nigerians, including a democratically elected President, have been imprisoned without trial, and its democratic constitution has been suspended. The sanctions include bans on new U.S. corporate investment, arms sales, and direct air travel; denial of U.S. economic aid except human rights and democracy programs; a freeze on personal assets of regime members; opposition to IMF (International Monetary Fund and World Bank loans; and a cut-off of U.S. trade loans and guarantees. The leaflet lists Congressional co-sponsors along with Reps. Donald Payne and Amory Houghton. The leaflet quotes Payne, Jennifer Davis of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), and the State Department's Nigeria Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1996. It also mentions extrajudicial execution, General Sani Abacha, Chief Moshood Abiola, discrimination against women, and freedom of speech, press, assembly, association, travel, and workers' rights.
