UncategorizedTravesty of Justice: An Advocavy Manual agaist the Holding Charge (2004)
October 29, 20040
Nigeria’s judicial procedures are plagued with an obnoxious practice, widely known as “holding charge,” whereby the police obtains the endorsement of a court which lacks jurisdiction, to remand a criminal suspect in prison custody indefinitely. Suspects held under the holding charge regime may remain in detention as awaiting trial prisoners for upwards of five years […]