A suicide bomber killed at least 30 people inside a Shi‘ite mosque in Kabul on Friday, a security official said. He said that was the latest in a string of violent attacks on the country’s Shi‘ite minority. The attack occurred at Imam Zaman mosque in the western Dasht-e-Barchi part of Kabul, as Shi‘ite worshippers gathered […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, presided over by Justice Gabriel Kolawole, has ordered the unconditional release of embattled spiritual leader Shiites sect, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, who has been in detention with his wife, Zeatudden. The couple have been in custody for one year following their arrest after a El-Zakzaky followers clashed with the military […]
Continue ReadingHere is the full statement by the Kaduna State government on Friday 7 October declaring unlawful the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, popularly know as Shiite Muslims, led by Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. “The Kaduna State Government has issued an Order declaring the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) an unlawful society. “This action is taken in the […]
Continue ReadingMembers of the Shi’ia Islamic sect on Saturday embarked on a trek from Zaria to Abuja to demand the release of Ibrahim Zakzaky, their leader who has been in detention since December 2015. The president, media forum of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim Musa, who confirmed the action, accused security agents of plotting […]
Continue ReadingHearing of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky’s human rights violation suit against the Department of State Services, the attorney general of the Federation and the Nigerian Police, has been fixed for 14 June. Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja made the order after the respondents in the case failed to appear in court. […]
Continue ReadingA human rights group, Access to Justice, has termed the continued detention of the leader of the Shi’ite sect, Ibrahim Zakzaky, and some of his members, an abuse of the constitution and their rights. The group posited more than one month after the Shi’ite sect clashed with military officers in Kaduna, the army are still […]
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