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US Lawmakers, Activists: Abuse by Nigerian Police Unit Is Global Human Rights
Issue

Salem Solomon

   American politicians and civil rights leaders are lending their voices
   to the protests in Nigeria against abuses by the Special Anti-Robbery
   Squad (SARS), a police unit accused of excessive violence against
   civilians.

   Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, wrote a [1]letter
   along with the Congressional Black Caucus to Nigerian President
   Muhammadu Buhari urging him to reform the security sector and allow
   people to demonstrate peacefully.

   "What is happening now with SARS and the peaceful protest of Nigerians
   that has been responded to by bloodshed and violence is unacceptable,"
   Jackson Lee told VOA.

References

   1. https://cbc.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2242

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