Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the Nigerian military has arbitrarily detained thousands of children in degrading and inhuman conditions for...
Human Rights Watch says the Nigerian military has arbitrarily detained thousands of children in degrading and inhuman conditions for suspected involvement with the armed Islamist group Boko Haram.In a statement by the group as a precursor to the release of a new report today, the rights defenders said many children are held without charge for months or years in squalid and severely overcrowded military barracks, with no contact with the outside world.
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