Nigeria military frees 180 Boko Haram suspects, including babies
Nigeria’s military has released 180 people suspected of being members of the homegrown Nigerian Takfiri terrorist group Boko Haram, including women who had been detained together with their toddlers and infants.
The detainees had been held for months prior to being handed over in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Monday to Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima.
Army chief Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minima, who handed over the detainees, said they "have been investigated and found to be free of all suspected incrimination."
Some freed women said they are widows and others said they were arrested because their brothers were suspected Boko Haram members.
Boko Haram, whose name means Western education is forbidden, has claimed responsibility for a number of deadly shooting attacks and bombings in Nigeria since the beginning of its operation in 2009, which have claimed the lives of thousands of people.
The news regarding the detention of the suspects emerged as Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's government has said it was investigating a report by the London-based rights group Amnesty International, calling into question the Nigerian military’s treatment of the people in its detention.
Last month, the report accused the military of bringing about the deaths of 8,000 detainees, killing some outright and claiming the lives of the rest by subjecting them to starvation and suffocation.
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