Court awards N30m against Nigeria for ‘torture of journalist Agba Jalingo’

  Agba Jalingo was arrested and chained to a deep freezer for about 34 days without being charged to court, brutalized and dehumanized.   The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja has “ordered the Federal Government to pay journalist Agba Jalingo N30 million as compensation for ill-treating and torturing him while in detention in Cross River state.” The court said in a judgment on Friday: “Agba Jalingo was arrested and chained to a deep freezer for about 34 days without being charged to court, brutalized and dehumanized. This action taken…

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