Tag: Torture

For years, operatives from the anti-kidnapping unit, popularly known as Tiger Base, have been accused of engaging in torture of ...

Key institutions assessed included various detention facilities, including those for men, women, and children, police stations, criminal investigation departments, and ...

The boy, on admission at the Federal University Teaching Hospital in Wukari, had his lips burned with firewood for misplacing ...

The draft criminal procedure and evidence code must be approved to ensure the legitimacy of trials in the transitional justice ...

Many of the witnesses who had testified in both Messrs Kamara and Kosiah’s trials told the court of the trauma ...

The native doctor is seen in several video clips uploaded on his Facebook page torturing and violently killing animals apparently ...

Police operatives, who arrested the man, did not charge him to court but continued to torture and detain him.

“We will look into it,” says the Force Spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi.

Kamara denies all the accusations that victims have made against him of torture, rape, murder of civilians and “barbarism”.

The judge said prosecutors had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Massaquoi committed the crimes of rape, ritual ...

The army denies the accusation.

29 states and the FCT have set up judicial panels to hear allegations of police brutality

The victim was arrested in 2014 at Igando area of Lagos and was taken to Igando police station where he ...

The woman narrated her experience with the SARS officials at a panel sitting in Abuja.

Parents of some of the children had disputed police claims that the inmates were being abused and held against their ...

“Much has been achieved in the fight against this and other cruel, inhuman, degrading punishment and treatment."

''Victims should speak out and report incidents of torture.''

Human Rights Watch released a report on its investigations into the matter.

Ousman Sonko was interior minister from 2006 to 2016.

‎The report documents 101 cases of incommunicado detention and torture between 2013 and 2017.

The police officers were dismissed after the incident.

The woman’s husband says he is ready to divorce her.

Saheed Eyitayo was arrested by the SSS on April 4 and was never seen alive by family and friends again.

 Detainees speak of horrific torture within Giwa barracks, allegations military authorities deny Ahmed Imam’s crime seemed despicable and clear enough ...