Tag: Unlawful detention

Igboho drags Benin Republic to ECOWAS court for unlawful detention, claims $1 million as damages

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Yoruba Nation agitator and youths leader, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has filed a $1 million suit against Republic of Benin before the Community Court of Justice, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as general damages for each day he has spent in detention in the country. Igboho, through his […]

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Unlawful detention, journalist Abiri gets N10m damages

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A federal judge sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, has declared the two years detention of the media practitioner, Mr. Jones Abiri as outright conviction and ordered Nigerian government to pay N10 million in damages to him. Mr Abiri was arrested in August 2016 and detained for two years till his lawyers, led by human rights activist, […]

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