AhlulBayt News Agency: About 19 members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) have been arrested by the Buhari regime over having a peaceful procession
on Thursday the 30th of March 2023.
A combined team of policemen and soldiers on Thursday dispersed protesting members of the group with teargas in Abuja, sources of people critically injured.
The pro-Zakzaky demonstrators on Thursday continued their protest to demand the release of the passports of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah, who had been acquitted and discharged by a Kaduna high court.
The peaceful protest, which kick-started at Federal High Court in Maitama was abruptly terminated at Eagle Square near the Federal Secretariat when armed security operatives arrived and brutally attacked them.
The incident led to pandemonium in the area as passers-by were seen scampering to safety.
Many protesters sustained varying degrees of injury while others were seen lying unconscious on the ground after being hit by teargas canisters.
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Thursday in a statement signed by its spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, confirmed the arrest of some of the protesters.
IMN members numbering over 400 staged a protest from Federal High Court to Eagle Square following the court’s ruling on the passport of their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.
The protest was after the court rejected an application filed by El-Zakzaky asking the Department of State Services (DSS) to release his passport and that of his wife.
However, Justice Obiora Egwuatu in his ruling said El-Zakzaky failed to prove that the DSS took the passports away, after his return from India.
However police officers dispersed and arrest 19 of pro-Zakzaky protesters.
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A combined team of policemen and soldiers on Thursday dispersed protesting members of the group with teargas in Abuja, sources of people critically injured.
The pro-Zakzaky demonstrators on Thursday continued their protest to demand the release of the passports of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah, who had been acquitted and discharged by a Kaduna high court.
The peaceful protest, which kick-started at Federal High Court in Maitama was abruptly terminated at Eagle Square near the Federal Secretariat when armed security operatives arrived and brutally attacked them.
The incident led to pandemonium in the area as passers-by were seen scampering to safety.
Many protesters sustained varying degrees of injury while others were seen lying unconscious on the ground after being hit by teargas canisters.
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Thursday in a statement signed by its spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, confirmed the arrest of some of the protesters.
IMN members numbering over 400 staged a protest from Federal High Court to Eagle Square following the court’s ruling on the passport of their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.
The protest was after the court rejected an application filed by El-Zakzaky asking the Department of State Services (DSS) to release his passport and that of his wife.
However, Justice Obiora Egwuatu in his ruling said El-Zakzaky failed to prove that the DSS took the passports away, after his return from India.
However police officers dispersed and arrest 19 of pro-Zakzaky protesters.
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