A high Court sitting in Kaduna State has ordered the state government to dispose Zeenat, the wife of Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, to treatment for coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Zeenat and her husband, who lead the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), have been in detention since December 2015 when the Shiites clashed with Nigerian soldiers in Zaria.
Last Thursday, Mohammed, son of the IMN leader, said his mother, Zeenat, tested positive for COVID-19 at the Kaduna Correctional Centre, and demanded her release for treatment. But the authorities refused. x
Counsel to El-Zakzaky, Femi Falana, however, presented a medical report to back up his case for the release of Zeenat. The senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) asked the court to allow Zeenat seek medical treatment outside the correctional centre, according to measures put in place by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
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Police Open Fire On Shiites Demanding El-Zakzaky’s Release For COVID-19 Treatment In Abuja
The peaceful protest, which was held at the Federal Secretariat hub of the civil service, was disrupted when the police swooped on them and fired live bullets and teargas canisters at the crowd.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Jan 25, 2021
Police officers have opened fire on protesting members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, popularly known as Shiites, in Abuja and injured some of them in the process.
The group had on Monday staged a protest to demand the release of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat, from a Kaduna Correctional Centre after they had been tested and found positive for COVID-19.
Court orders Kaduna govt to treat Zeenah Zakzaky for COVID-19
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By Ibrahim HassanWuyo
Barely a week after her son raised the alarm that his mother, Zeenah Zakzaky has contracted COVID-19 in a Kaduna Correctional Center, a Kaduna High Court has ordered the state government to treat Zeenah immediately.
The order was given by Justice Gideon Kurada of the Kaduna State High Court on Monday at the resumption of the secret trial of Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife in Kaduna.
Mrs Zeenah and her husband, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, (IMN) Ibrahim El–Zakzaky were in detention in Kaduna.
Godwin Isenyo, Kaduna
The trial of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria otherwise known as ‘Shi’ites,’ Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, and wife, Zeenat, began at the Kaduna State High Court on Monday.
At the resumed hearing, the leader of the Shi’ite and wife were absent.
But the court ordered that the authorities to as a matter of urgency treat the wife of the embattled leader of the IMN for Covid-19.
Members of the IMN, had last week, renewed calls for the release of El-Zakzaky and his wife, claiming that Elzakzaky’s wife had tested positive for COVID-19 inside the Kaduna Correctional facility where they are being detained since 2015.