Nigeria Digest # 21

27 January, 2018

Update on last week events including protests and daily sit out in Abuja and Nigerian Govt’s attempts to legitimise unconstitutional detention of Sheikh Zakzaky.

PRESS RELEASE – Nigeria: IHRC urges High Commissioner in London to meet to discuss health of Sheikh Zakzaky

23 January, 2018

In the letter to the High Commissioner George Adesola Oguntade, IHRC urges him to allow the sheikh to travel abroad to receive specialist care.

Letter to the High Commissioner of Nigeria regarding the detention of Sheikh Zakzaky

23 January, 2018

This matter has now dragged on for two years and has become a major blemish on Nigeria’s good name in the international arena

PRESS RELEASE – NIGERIA: Govt rebuked for contempt of court in Ibrahim el-Zakzaky case

22 January, 2018

The move came as judges sat to hear a government appeal against a court order made over a year ago that Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife be released.

PRESS RELEASE – NIGERIA: Govt begins legal attempt to legitimise detention of Ibrahim el-Zakzaky

22 January, 2018

IHRC finds it scandalous that instead of upholding the rule of law the Nigerian government is actually subverting it by continuing to hold the Zakzakys in defiance of the release order

Nigeria Digest # 20

20 January, 2018

Update on continuous regular protests and daily Free Zakzaky Sit Out in the capital Abuja and World wide prayers for the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Zakzaky.