Dokument #1123782
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
In a 28 May 1998 telephone interview with
the Research Directorate, the Administrative Director at the
National Democratic Coalition of Nigeria (NADECO) in Washington,
who was also a researcher for the 1997 revised edition of
Behind the Walls: Prisons in Nigeria, stated that
political prisoners are routinely released on the condition that
they report to the authorities on a bi-weekly, weekly or monthly
basis depending on their offences. The director added that these
reporting conditions are means to ensure that these political
prisoners do not leave the country.
Country Reports 1997 and
Country Reports 1996 provide two examples in which
detained persons were subject to reporting conditions; Country
Reports 1997 states that those persons who have witnessed a
crime are sometimes detained for periods of up to several months
and then are asked to report to the authorities for further
questioning after their release (1998, 263). Country Reports
1996 states that three Amnesty International representatives
were arrested and detained for a day in November 1996, and then,
upon their release, were asked to report to the authorities for the
next few days (1997, 221).
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is
not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any
particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the
list of additional sources consulted in researching this
Information Request.
References
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1997. 1998. United States Department of State.
Washington, DC: United States Printing Office.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1996. 1997. United States Department of State.
Washington, DC: United States Printing Office
National Democratic Coalition of Nigeria
(NADECO), Washington. 28 May 1998. Telephone interview with the
Administrative Director.
Additional Sources Consulted
Amnesty International. April 1997.
Nigeria: No Significant Change — Human Rights Violations
Continue.
Behind the Wall: A Report on Prison
Conditions in Nigeria and the Nigerian Prison System.
1991.
News from Africa Watch [New
York]. 1995-1997.
Human Rights Watch World Report
1998. 1997.
Electronic sources: IRB Databases,
Global News Bank, LEXIS/NEXIS, REFWORLD (UNHCR database).