Nigeria: How Police Forcefully Dispersed Protesting Shiites - Several Injured, Arrested

10 January 2018

Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, protesting the continued incarceration of their leader, were on Wednesday attacked by security operatives.

The operatives fired tear-gas and also shot in the air to disperse the protesters marching in Abuja. Many of them were eventually arrested.

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