The popular human rights activist, Femi Falana, was born on May 20, 1958, in Ilawe, Ekiti State. He attended St. Michael’s School (1963 to 1968) after which, he went to Sacred Heart Catholic Seminary from 1971 to 1975.
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When he appeared in court in Venezuela on charges of conspiring against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, John Alvarez told the judge that police officers had applied electric shocks to his genitals, ribs and knees and hit him with a bat to extract "a confession."A UN observer mission accused the Maduro government of "selective repression" against its adversaries, with the police acting as one of its enforcement arms.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has documented six extrajudicial executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) and confirmed the authenticity of the videos showing the murder of a soldier after the phrase "Glory to Ukraine" and the video of the beheading of a Ukrainian serviceman.