The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) on Friday said three of
its members who were shot and held in police custody had died.
The sect explained the deceased were arrested during Monday’s
clash between its members and the police during which about 13
persons, including a Deputy Commissioner of Police died in
Abuja.
The President, Media Forum of IMN, Ibrahim Musa, in a statement
in Abuja said the three detainees died as a result of bullet wounds
they sustained during the incident.
According to him: “More persons might die in police custody
since 15 other members are still nursing various degrees of bullet
wounds in detention without medication.
“All entreaties made by relatives of the detainees for the police
authorities to allow them to get treatment or medication have
fallen on deaf ears, an indication that they (police) are waiting
for them to slowly die in excruciating pains.”
The group accused the police of throwing decency to the dogs
during their encounter with the sect, adding that police operatives
dumped a sect member on the roadside “after torturing him and
pouring boiling water on him.”
The IMN pleaded with the international community and human
rights activists to visit the Special Anti-Robbery Squad detention
facilities where its members were allegedly detained in inhuman
conditions.
It further demanded the bodies of dead Shi’ite members so their
families could give them decent burials.
“We also call on the police to hand over to us the wounded
persons so that at least their lives can be saved. The dead bodies
of the supporters of the Islamic Movement should be handed to us
also, so that their families can give them a befitting Islamic
funeral rite.
“Burying them in mass graves is a war crime which the police should
be wary off in the future,” they stated.
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