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Nigerian court acquits Shia leader, orders his release July 28, 2021 at 3:53 pm
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) A Nigerian court has ordered the release of the leader of the country’s main Shia group, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenah Ibrahim, who have both been in prison for more than five years.
A High Court in the northern city of Kaduna on Wednesday dismissed charges brought against them which include culpable homicide, unlawful assembly and disruption of public peace.
Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, has been in prison without trial since 2015 after soldiers clashed with members of his group at their headquarters in the northern city of Zaria. Zakzaky and his wife sustained bullet wounds in the incident.
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El-Zakzaky and Zeenat were
freed on Wednesday after Gideon Kurada, the presiding judge, ruled on a no-case submission filed by Femi Falana, their lawyer.
The judge held that the Kaduna state government failed to establish a prima facie case against the defendants.
El-Zakzaky and his wife were arraigned on an eight-count charge bordering on alleged culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, disruption of public peace, among others.
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The defendants had pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against them.
The duo had been in detention since December 2015 following clashes between IMN members and soldiers in Zaria, Kaduna state.
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