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Respite came the way of two Nigerians after 29 years in prison when the Centre for Peace and Conflict Management in Africa (CPCMA) on 29th June obtained a favourable judgment against Nigeria in the case against the applicants. The duo, Gabriel Inyang and Linus Iyeme were convicted and sentenced to death by the Armed Robbery and Firearms Tribunal in 1995 …

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Nigerians have continued to agitate release of persons sentenced to death by military tribunals. After 18 years of uninterrupted democracy, it is sad that some Nigerians who were sentenced to death by military tribunals of the 1980s and 1990s still languish in prisons nationwide. Arthur Judah Angel is the Founder of Life Wire, an intervention organisation that sees to the …

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