A leading member of a Niger Delta oil rebel group has been confirmed as alive and well by members of his family.
The news comes over a week after Henry Okah's rebel group threatened "anarchy" in the Delta region unless his family and lawyers were given access to him.
Mr Okah, of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), was arrested in September.
The government last week revealed charges of treason against Mr Okah, who faces a death sentence.
This article addresses the confirmation that a leading member of a Niger Delta oil rebel group is "alive and well." This comes after many feared that Okah had been killed, possibly by the government. Okah is being charged with treason and faces a death sentence. Okah has felt betrayed by the government because of agreements they had made previously. According to Okah's brother Charles, Mr. Okah did not seem to have been physically harmed while he was detained. The location of Okah and his friend, Edward Atatah, has remained unknown for the length of their detainment. Atatah is suffering from hallucinations and "acute hypertension" because of his detainment. The fact that this man has become mentally ill since he has been detained by the government alludes to the ill treatment that these men have been receiving.
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