Amnesty Int’l trains law students on incidents of torture

By Vivian Okejeme

Abuja

Amnesty International, yesterday, expressed readiness and commitment in the fight against human rights abuse and torture as they move to the university community in Abuja and environs.
The organisation also emphasised the importance of abolishing and criminalising acts of torture in the country.
Country Director, Amnesty International Nigeria, Osai Ojigho at the occasion, said he hoped to enlist students into the war against the menace.
Speaking at a symposium and moot court competition held at Baze University, Abuja, Ojigho emphasised that torture as a tool of getting information from suspects under detention was not only out of fashion but against the provisions of the constitution.
She described torture as a cruel and inhuman treatment inflicted on the victim not only by security officials on suspects under detention but include all those other inhuman and harmful treatments meted out to others.
She, therefore, called on Nigerians to support the body in its efforts to eradicate the act and culture of torture in Nigeria.
She advised security operatives to device other means of getting information from suspects in their custody instead of inflicting pain or harm and called on victims to always speak out, noting that their silence is not only justifying violence but encourages perpetrators to continue in the act.

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