IHRC report to UN on Nigerian Authorities’ Treatment to Islamic Movement

Sale Haruna Nass

IHRC report to UN on Nigerian Authorities’ Treatment to Islamic Movement

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The London-based rights group, the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has submitted a report to the United Nations highlighting systematic state abuse in the Nigerian authorities’ treatment of the country’s Islamic Movement.

The report has been written for the upcoming review by the UN’s Human Rights Committee of Nigeria’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

The report focuses on the persecution of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and its leaders and supporters since 2014, a period which has seen two massacres and routine killings, torture, and detention without trial amongst other abuses.

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS (NON-REPORTING STATE) 126th Session (1 July 2019 to 26 July 2019)

Since at least 2014 the authorities in Nigeria have prosecuted a systematic and violent campaign to suppress the Islamic Movement of…

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Three years after zaria massacre: demand for justice.

Sale Haruna Nass

By Yusuf Abdullahi
In the name of Allah Who states “On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person -unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land – it shall be as if he had killed all mankind; and whoso gave life to one, it shall be as if he had given life to all mankind.

And Our Messengers came to them with clear Signs, yet even after that, many of them commit excesses in the land. many of them commit given life to all mankind” Q5:33
Peace and blessings of Allah be upon His noble servant, our master Muhammad and his purified progeny.
The piece for this week is on the 3rd anniversary of the unfortunate Zaria massacre where about a 1000 peaceful citizens were innocently murdered by the nation’s military who were constitutionally mandated to…

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