West Africa: Edo Execution - Lawyers Without Borders Drags FG to Ecowas Court

18 September 2013

Avocats Sans Frontières France (ASFF), also know as Lawyers Without Borders, has filed an action at the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja, seeking to stop the execution of the fifth inmate condemned to death in Edo State.

ASFF in a statement signed by its Head of Office, Angela Uwandu, stated that there was a renewed threat by the state Government to secretly execute the fifth inmate. ASFF is asking the court to grant an immediate order for the release of Mr. Thankgod Ebohs, from detention or alternatively commute his death sentence to life imprisonment.

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