The Nigerian government has condemned an assault on one of its diplomats in Indonesia.
It wrote a protest letter to the Indonesian government after a video began circulating on social media showing the man shouting and being held down in a vehicle by several men.
The diplomat was manhandled by Indonesian immigration officials, said Nigeria’s foreign ministry in a statement.
One of the officials, who was wearing a mask, put his hand on the diplomat’s head and pushed it back against a seat.
Between yells of protest, the diplomat repeated: “I can’t breathe”.
Later in the one-minute-and 30-second clip, he said: “My neck, my neck”.
The diplomat was detained on a street in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
In a statement, Nigeria’s foreign ministry said the treatment was “against international law and the Vienna Conventions governing diplomatic and consular relations between states”.
Indonesia’s envoy to Nigeria was summoned on Monday over the incident and apologised on behalf of his government, said the foreign ministry.
It said the immigration officials had also apologised to Nigeria’s ambassador to Indonesia.
In 2015, the Indonesian government executed two Nigerians by firing squad for alleged drug offences.
The Nigerian Foreign Ministry said the executions were carried out despite persistent pleas for clemency from the government and parliament.
