Nigeria: Govt Urged to Commute All Death Sentences Following Court Judgment

press release

The Nigerian authorities must commute all death sentences and impose an official moratorium on executions, Amnesty International said today, following the confirmation of a death sentence by the Supreme Court.

On Friday, the Supreme Court in Abuja upheld rulings by two lower courts that actress Rabi Ismail drugged and drowned Auwalu Ibrahim in the northern city of Kano in December 2002. She was sentenced to death in December 2004. If carried out, the execution would be the first in Nigeria since 2006.

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