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The United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor has published its “2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” and the report indicts Nigeria on many violations of Human Rights.
The right of freedom/liberty of persons is a central human right related to the critical aspect of a person’s freedom. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) received 45,280 complaints relating to freedom/liberty of persons, and complaints about unlawful arrests and detention were the highest received in that category, with 41,040 making up 90.6% of the total received.
Complaints of violations to the National Human Rights Commission included sexual and gender-based violence, women and gender rights, child rights, right of the aged, judiciary rule of law and access to justice, freedom/liberty of persons, right to life, freedom of religion, law enforcement, and human dignity, quality of rights, labor rights, freedom from discrimination, Niger Delta and environments and others.
A report by the Human Rights Watch has said that thousands of Nigerians with mental health conditions across Nigeria are chained and locked up in various facilities where they face terrible abuse.
