Overview
- Nigeria’s attorney general said late Friday that courts secured 386 convictions out of 508 terrorism cases after a four-day session in Abuja.
- Sentences varied, with many up to 20 years after guilty pleas, and 11 defendants receiving 40 to 60 years under the terrorism law.
- Judges ordered rehabilitation and de-radicalization for those convicted, and some sentences were backdated, leading to immediate releases after years in custody.
- Court officials said observers from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Amnesty International, and the Nigerian Bar Association monitored the hearings.
- Officials adjourned 112 cases to the next phase expected by the end of May, part of trials that began in 2017 for suspects tied to Boko Haram and ISWAP.