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Nigeria: human rights commission demands dismissal of police officers

Nigeria: human rights commission demands dismissal of police officers

Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission demanded the dismissal and prosecution of a number of police officers for torture, extrajudicial executions and unlawful detention. It comes after the committee’s investigations into police abuse against people protesting against police brutality in 2020. The panel headed by a senior judge, Sulaiman Galadima, ordered …

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