The Amnesty International documents disturbing trend where individuals accused of offences like theft, blasphemy, shoplifting, and witchcraft are subjected to brutal assaults, torture, and summary executions—often with the perpetrators escaping accountability.
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The international organisation looked at cases of between January 2012 to August 2023 in a bid to compile the investigative report, recording at least 555 victims of mob violence, from 363 documented incidents across Nigeria. Reacting on the findings of the report, Isa Sanusi, the Director of Amnesty International in Nigeria, said that the menace of mob violence is perhaps one of the biggest threats to the right to life in Nigeria.
“It is appalling that mob violence is gradually becoming the norm, often meted out in crowded areas, such as motor parks, market areas and busy roads. Victims were always tortured including by beating, stoning, or via the use of improvised weapons like sticks and metal rods.”He added that the government is not addressing the problem of access to justice and effective remedies for victims enough.
The report said that those struggling with mental health issues and psycho-social disabilities are increasingly targeted by violent persons that use their disabilities to make false accusations against victims and to justify lynching them.
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