Tag: Human Rights
Death of Nigerian ‘Taliban’ leader ‘best thing for the country’
Mike Pflanz July 31, 2009.
Print: The Telegraph
Nigeria welcomed the death in police custody of a hardline Islamist leader but human rights groups condemned an unlawful killing. Muhammed Yusuf died of multiple gunshot wounds late on Thursday less than an hour after he was captured by police in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri.
Call for Egypt Bahai attack probe
BBC April 3, 2009.
BBC News
Rights groups in Egypt call for an inquiry after they say followers of the minority Bahai religion have been assaulted.
