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AI seeks facts for rights panel

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    Nigerians must produce facts on rights violations committed during the last three administrations and submit them to the recently formed Human Rights Abuses Panel to ensure that culprits are punished, Amnesty International (AI) said on Wednesday at a news conference in Lagos.

    An AI spokesman told IRIN that the organisation also presented its report for this year at the news conference.

    He said AI warned that if facts were not presented to support claims of human rights abuses it would mean that perpetrators would escape prosecution. It welcomed the setting up of the panel to investigate human rights abuses and said Nigerians would cooperate with the panel by submitting facts that would help it carry out its work.

    The investigating panel, set up on 4 June just one week after President Olusegun Obasanjo's inauguration, is headed by a former judge of the Supreme Court.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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