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Special Report on Petty Offences covered in Nigerian media

Premium Times Nigeria run a special report entitled ‘Criminalisation of petty offences in Nigeria violates the poor’ which heavily features campaign engagement with both the ACHPR and the Nigerian criminal justice institutions and campaign partners, such as Lawyers Alert and PRAWA on Premium Times Nigeria.

The article by Kunle Sunni talks about how ‘the enforcement of petty offences laws targets the poor who on many occasions “have no resources to hire lawyers or to bribe the police”.’

Read the full article here: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/558840-special-report-criminalisation-of-petty-offences-in-nigeria-violates-the-poor.html

 

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