Amnesty International has accused the
Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit of the Nigeria Police Force, of
torturing suspects and demanding bribes to free them.
In a report published on its website on
Wednesday the group alleged that officers attached to SARS were getting
rich from lucrative bribes.
The report alleged that detainees were
subjected to “horrific torture methods, including hanging, starvation,
beatings, shootings and mock executions, at the hands of corrupt SARS
officers.
AI said it received reports from
lawyers, human rights defenders and journalists and collected
testimonies stating that some police officers in SARS regularly demand
bribes, steal and extort money from criminal suspects and their
families.http://punchng.com/amnesty-international-accuses-sars-torture-bribery/
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