Press TV – April 29, 2016 Rights activists have called for the bodies of hundreds of Shia Muslims massacred by the Nigerian army last December to be exhumed for further investigation into the exact number of victims. Residents in the northern city of Kaduna, where the carnage took place, have rejected the official death toll […]
Press TV – January 14, 2016 A Nigerian Shia group says more than 700 of its members are still unaccounted for a month after the deadly attacks by Nigerian forces against Shia Muslims in the northern city of Zaria. In a statement released on Thursday, Ibrahim Musa, the spokesman for the Islamic Movement of Nigeria […]
Nigerian Shia leader Ibrahim al-Zakzaky Press TV – December 20, 2015 Nigerian authorities say Shia leader Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, who has been arrested and whose family and supporters have faced a bloody crackdown, will face prosecution. On Saturday, Nasir al-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State in north-central Nigeria, where Zakzaky was arrested in his home city […]
