Nigeria Digest #127

August 13, 2020

Zakzaky lawyers file case dismissal application

August 7, 2020

PRESS RELEASE – Lawyers for the imprisoned leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky and his wife Mallima Zeenah, have filed an application seeking to end their near five-year ordeal. The application to quash the charges was made today in Kaduna High

Event Report: The Uprising documentary with Pravini Baboeram

August 4, 2020

Arzu Merali chaired a film screening and Q&A with activist and singer/songwriter Pravini Baboeram.

Eid Mubarak – Video Message

July 31, 2020

IHRC would like to wish you all a very blessed Eid ul Adha. Eid Mubarak and don’t forget the oppressed in your prayers. May Allah swt liberate them. Ameen. Please find links to more information on the current and historic situation below.If you need more

Message by Mak Dizdar

July 29, 2020

Read by Demir Mahmutcehajic, Ramzy Baroud and Arzu Merali. For Prijedor, Srebrenica, Bosanska Krajina, Nevesinje, for everywhere there was genocide in Bosnia For Deir Yassin, Lifta, Sariss, Abu Shusha and everywhere there was genocide in Palestine For Nellie, Hashimpura, Delhi, Gujarat and every victim in

IHRC urges Buhari to free Zakzakys on eve of trial

July 28, 2020

PRESS RELEASE: IHRC has again written to the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to free the leader of the country’s Islamic Movement, Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky and his wife Mallima Zeenah and end their near five-year ordeal. The couple remain in custody in Kaduna

IHRC letter to Buhari urges him to end Zakzakys' ordeal

July 28, 2020

Dear President, I am writing once again to draw your urgent attention to the unlawful detention of the leader of the country’s Islamic Movement, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, together with his wife Mallimah Zeenah. As you will no doubt be aware, the couple remain in custody