Avocats Sans Frontieres, often known as lawyers without borders, expressed concern over the rise in extrajudicial murders and cases of torture on Tuesday. The legal group also bemoaned the growing number of prisoners awaiting trial who are being held in various jails around the federation in a report it released to celebrate the conclusion of the SAFE Project intervention it initiated in 2019. It was reported that security forces have continued to utilize torture as a tactic to coerce extrajudicial statements from suspects notwithstanding the Administration of Criminal Justice Act's (ACJA) 2015 adoption. The Head of Office of ASF France, in Nigeria, Angela Uzoma-Iwuchukwu, said the group deployed its officials in three states- Enugu, Lagos and Kaduna- which served as pilot states for the concluded
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