Nigeria: State Dragged Before ICC Over Zaria Killings

23 March 2016

Abuja — A United Kingdom-based non-profit organisation, the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has asked the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to conduct a preliminary investigation into the attacks on members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) in Zaria on December 12 and 13, 2016.

It attached the list of members of IMN believed to be dead, (216) and those in detention (219) and those still missing (480) and said the list was still being updated, and did not reflect the total number of casualties on December 12 and 13, 2015.

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