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‘Hundreds die in Nigerian jails’

LAGOS – Hundreds of people have died in detention facilities in north-east Nigeria as the army tries to crush an Islamist militant rebellion there, according to Amnesty International. The human rights group said some detainees died from suffocation in overcrowded cells, others from starvation and extra-judicial killings. In Wednesday’s report, it calls for an urgent…

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