Human Rights
HumAngle’s Human Rights Desk examines gross human rights violations such as extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary arrests/detention. It also covers issues surrounding press freedom and monitors reports and activities of human rights organisations.
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#EndSARSMemorial: Pro-government Protesters Demonstrate In Abuja As Government Describes Oct. 20 ‘Phantom Massacre’
Nigerian youths who trooped out on Wednesday, Oct. 20, in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital to mark the one year anniversary of…
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#EndSARSMemorial: Police Arrest Journalist Covering Protest In Southwest Nigeria
A correspondent of Daily Post Newspaper in Osun State, Southwest Nigeria, Sikiru Obarayese, has been arrested by police while covering…
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#EndSarsMemorial: Police Brutalises Uber Driver In Lagos
Operatives of the Nigeria Police in Lagos have on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 brutalised an Uber driver at the Lekki…
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#EndSARSMemorial: Social Media Users React As Police Descend On Protesters
Nigerians have reacted to the arrests and harassments of protesters on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2020 by security operatives during the…
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#EndSarsMemorial: Nigeria Police Fire Teargas At Protesters In Lagos
Police in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Wednesday, Oct. 20 fired teargas at #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate…
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#EndSARS: Police Harassment Continues A Year After
Nigerians have not experienced a respite from arbitrary arrests, detention, and harassment in the hands of the country’s police officers…
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#EndSARSMemorial: Police Arrest Journalist, Two Other Protesters At Lekki Tollgate
A journalist and another protester have been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command at the Lekki tollgate…
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#EndSARS: One Year After, Police Yet To Stop Extrajudicial Killings
If anything has changed in the last one year about the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Nigeria Police…
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#EndSARS: An Introspection Into Events Of Oct. 2020
In what was referred to as a decentralised agitation against extrajudicial killings and brutalities by the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad…
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#EndSARS: Abuja Panel Resumes Sitting Seven Months After Break
Seven months after its last sitting, the #EndSARS panel set up to investigate cases of police brutality in Abuja, Nigeria’s…
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