The Islamic Movement in Nigeria
(IMN) on Friday alleged the death of three of its detainee-members, who were
shot and held in police custody at the SARS headquarters, Abuja.
The IMN spokesman, Ibrahim Musa
said the Shiites died on Wednesday because of bullet wounds they sustained
during the free Zakzaky protest earlier in the week.
According to him, more might die
in police custody “because there are at least 15 people who are in the
detention centre with various degrees of bullet wounds, without medication
Among them are women and a minor who has his leg shot.”
Musa pointed out that “all
appeals made by relatives of the detainees for the police authorities to allow
them have medication have fallen on deaf ears, an indication that they are
waiting for them to slowly die in excruciating pains.
“It is unfortunate that when it
comes to dealing with the Shiites, the security agencies throw all known laws
and conventions to the dogs, and indulge in savagery as exhibited when the
police on Wednesday dumped a Muslim brother of the Islamic Movement by the
roadside after torturing him and pouring boiling water over him.
“We are calling on the
International Community and Human Right Activists and organizations to have a
look at the inhumanity taking place at the dreaded headquarters of SARS where
unarmed citizens are kept in dehumanizing conditions.
“We also call on the police to
hand over to us the wounded persons so that at least their lives can be saved.
“The dead bodies of the
supporters of the Islamic Movement should be handed to us also, so that their
families can give them a befitting Islamic funeral rite. Burying them in mass
graves is a war crime which the police should be wary off in the future.”
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What you Shi'a group of zakzaki are doing is unislamic,
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