The captives, women and children amongst them, were "held as slaves and engaged in forced labor." Nearly 1,500 people have been rescued from abusive Islamic institutions since September.
Nigerian police freed 259 people, including women and children, from an Islamic "rehabilitation center" in the southwestern city of Ibadan on Tuesday following a tip-off a day earlier.
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