Nigeria förbjuder shiitisk grupp efter våldsamheter
Nigerias regering har beslutat att förbjuda en shiitisk grupp, Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, rapporterar AFP. Det efter att flera dödliga sammandrabbningar inträffat i huvudstaden Abuja.
Rörelsen IMN har demonstrerat regelbundet i Abuja med förhoppningen att deras ledare Ibrahim Zakzaky, som varit frihetsberövad sedan 2015, ska släppas fri. Beskedet kommer samtidigt som gruppens ledare skulle till rätten, men förhandlingen sköts upp till i augusti.
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Ibrahim Zakzaky
Wikipedia (en)
Ibrahim Yaqoub El Zakzaky (alternately Ibraheem Zakzaky; Ibrahim Al-Zakzaky) (born May 5, 1953) is an outspoken and foremost Shi'a Muslim cleric in Nigeria. He is the head of Nigeria's Islamic Movement, a movement that he founded in the late 1970s, when he was a student at Ahmadu Bello University, and began propagating Shia Islam around 1979, at the time of the Iranian revolution—which saw Iran’s monarchy overthrown and replaced with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Khomeini. Zakzaky believed that the establishment of a republic along similar religious lines in Nigeria would be feasible. He has been detained several times due to accusations of civil disobedience or recalcitrance under military regimes in Nigeria during the 1980s and 1990s, and is still viewed with suspicion or as a threat by Nigerian authorities. In December 2015, the Nigerian Army raided his residence in Zaria, seriously injured him, and killed hundreds of his followers; since then, he has remained under state detention in the nation's capital pending his release, which was ordered in late 2016.
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