Overview
- Nigeria’s attorney general said Friday that courts secured 386 convictions from 508 cases after four days of mass hearings in Abuja.
- Sentences ranged from five years to life, including 40 to 60 years for 11 defendants under the terrorism law.
- Many suspects pleaded guilty or gave confessional statements, which judges accepted as sufficient for conviction without full prosecution evidence in hearings observed by international monitors.
- Judges ordered rehabilitation and deradicalization for those convicted, with the next phase of the mass trials planned by late May.
- A judge issued a retroactive nine-year sentence that led to the immediate release of one detainee who had already spent more than a decade in custody.