Ken Saro-Wiwa, whose health had deteriorated after he was denied regular medication for his heart condition, was finally admitted to Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital ...
At least 35 people in Kaa town have been extrajudicially executed on 4 August 1993 by armed men, some of whom are believed to have been in navy and police uniforms ...
Beko Ransome-Kuti, Femi Falana and Chief Gani Fawehinmi, human rights activists and leading members of the Campaign for Democracy, remain imprisoned in Kuje prison ...
The three human rights activists named above were charged on 12 July 1993 before a magistrate's court in the federal capital, Abuja, with sedition and conspiracy ...
The above named men, members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) were charged on 13 July 1993 on six counts relating to unlawful assembly ...
Prominent human rights activists in Nigeria are being repeatedly harassed and detained as protests mount against the government's failure to adhere to plans for ...
There is concern that members of Nigeria's security forces opened fire, in two incidents, on apparently peaceful demonstrators in the Ogoni area, 50 kilometres ...
1. Yugoslavia: Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo under increased threat from Serbian police. 2. Pakistan: Death by stoning sentence suspended. 3. Guatemala: Army sergeant ...
Three more people, all members of the Hausa ethnic group, have been sentenced to death in connection with religious riots in northern Nigeria in May 1992, bringing ...
Seven more people are known to have been sentenced to death by one of the Special Tribunals trying cases in Kaduna in connection with religious riots in northern ...