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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#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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Women In Borno IDP Camp Allege Selective Treatment By Officials
A group of women at Dalori II Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) camp in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria has alleged that…
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#EndSARS: Families Of Deceased, Wounded Recount Ordeal One Year After Protests
Ayoola Ayedungbe was the first child of his family. His three other siblings saw him as their role model and…
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#EndSARS: Lagos State Police Warn Against Anniversary Protests
Police in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria say they would not allow all forms of protests and demonstrations being planned to…
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Management Ignores Student’s Death, Asks Protesters To Apologise For Causing School Closure
The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, Southwest Nigeria, has moved to set up a committee…
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Operations Of Nigeria’s EFCC Raise Concerns Over Human Rights Violations
“When you walk through some estates in Nigerian cities and come across structures marked with spray paint by EFCC as…
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