Police arresting our hospitalised members, Shiites allege

The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), otherwise known as Shiites group, has accused the police of clampdown on hospitalised members in Gwagwalada, Abuja.

Stating that the action amounts to a breach of their fundamental human rights, the group maintained that the development was “a display of brutality, as the Nigeria Police Force has continued to crack down on the Shiites in Nigeria], arresting seriously injured patients from their hospital beds today, Tuesday, in various locations within and outside Abuja where they were receiving treatments from gunshots sustained from the police brutality.”

The Islamic sect further alleged that “the latest atrocity occurred today (yesterday) at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada.”

In a statement in Kaduna by Sheikh Rabiu Abdullahi, the IMN claimed: “The arrests are part of a larger pattern of violence and intimidation perpetrated by the Nigeria Police Force against supporters of the Islamic Movement, who gathered in Abuja to commemorate the Arba’een (40th Day of the Martyrdom of the grandson of the Prophet of Islam – Imam Husain who was killed 1,400 years ago by Yazid bn Muawiya in Karbala – Iraq).”