Nigeria: Kanu's Counsel Says Detention Violates International Law, to Petition UN

22 October 2021

Counsel to Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indeginous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mr Bruce Fien, said yesterday that the continued detention of the IPOB leader remained illegal, because it violated international law.

Fien, however, said he had gathered additional information from yesterday's proceedings to be added to his petition already before the United Nations Human Rights Council.

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