tabay Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/tabay/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 tabay Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/tabay/ 32 32 Toture is “rampant” in Nigeria: BBC https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/toture-is-rampant-in-nigeria-bbc/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/toture-is-rampant-in-nigeria-bbc/ An independent investigation has  found  torture is rampant among security forces interrogating detainees. It found that a senior police officer implicated in the 2014 death of a tortured suspect is still serving . BBC Africa  Eye has several video clips of detainees, including children, tortured by a method known as tabay. It involves binding the […]

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]]> An independent investigation has  found  torture is rampant among security forces interrogating detainees.

It found that a senior police officer implicated in the 2014 death of a tortured suspect is still serving .

BBC Africa  Eye has several video clips of detainees, including children, tortured by a method known as tabay.

It involves binding the arms behind the back adding weight to increase the pain.

Nigerian soldiers learned it while serving as peacekeepers in Sierra Leone 20 years ago.

Torture is illegal in Nigeria but the perpetrators of tabay appear to be able to harm suspects with impunity.

The BBC is showing footage of torture with a warning to viewers that they are about to see scenes that might be too shocking for some of them

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