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Reign Of Impunity: Nigeria’s Security Forces Torturing Suspects To Death

Although a signatory to the ‘United Nations Treaty Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment’, adopted in 1975, Nigeria’s security forces continue to violate the human rights and fundamental freedom proclaimed in the declaration. While the agreement prohibits torture of suspects in the bid to extract information or to subdue them, […]