#ENDSARS: Judicial panels receive over 2500 petitions against police brutality in Nigeria
29 states and the FCT have set up judicial panels to hear allegations of police brutality 4 min read
The judicial panels set up across Nigeria to investigate the excesses of the Nigerian police have received over 2,500 petitions, a new report has found.
State governments set up the panels following the #ENDSARS protests by youth that rocked Nigeria in October.
Most of the petitions allege human rights violations such as extra-judicial killings, torture, extortion, harassment, sexual and gender-based violence, indiscriminate arrests, illegal detention, illegal arrests and abuse of power by personnel of the Nigerian police and other security agencies.
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