Police Use Torture To Extract Confession From Suspects – Amnesty

 

             Naija police shaaa, must they use iron or anything connect to electric to torture someone before the confess? i think maybe they are doing it to less the stress of going through an investigation the way international police does, or probably they think that is the only way a criminal can confess.... anyway shaaa, na dem sabi

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International has challenged the Federal Government to criminalise the use of torture by the Police and military as a tool of investigations.

The movement stated that the military had detained, at least, 5,000 persons for terrorism since 2009 when military operations began against Boko Haram, many of whom, it alleged, were tortured or otherwise ill-treated.

The police and the military routinely torture women, men and children – some as young as 12 – using a wide range of methods, including beatings, shootings and rape, Amnesty International said in the 2014 report presented to journalists on Thursday in Abuja.

The AI Research and Advocacy Director, Netsatmet Belay, who presented the report titled, “Welcome to hell fire: Torture and other ill-treatment in Nigeria,” said AI would continue to engage the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights to investigate cases of torture by the police and the military in Nigeria.

Compiled from interviews and testimonies of 500 torture survivors and evidence gathered over 10 years, the report exposes the alleged use of police torture chambers and routine abuses by the military in the country.

It also reveals how most of those detained are held incommunicado and denied access to the outside world, including lawyers, families and courts.

Belay flayed the Nigerian judicial system for failing to prevent torture and other ill-treatment, noting that human rights violations are routine and common in the country particularly in police stations and military detention facilities.