Post by The Insight Desk with Ismail Auwal (@theinsights)
Survivors of the Minna custody tragedy describe overcrowding, unbearable heat and unanswered cries for help. Families mourn sons whose earnings sustained their households. The deaths of 37 people demand an independent investigation, public findings and justice. Everyone found culpable must be brought to book.
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EHIZOJIE PHILIP EIGBE: This is one of the most disheartening and heartbreaking news from several emanating from this country in recent times. Life of 37 young able-bodied youths just extinguished like chickens and the Country is just calm and moving on as usual. This is a national tragedy that should have called for a na...
James Lambie: The UN estimates that tens of thousands die in custody worldwide every year.
UN Special Rapporteur Morris Tidball-Binz said in his latest report on deaths in prisons, “Globally, victims often belong to the most economically and socially marginalised sectors of society, which helps to explain the inv...
UN Special Rapporteur Morris Tidball-Binz said in his latest report on deaths in prisons, “Globally, victims often belong to the most economically and socially marginalised sectors of society, which helps to explain the inv...