Dokument #1351605
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
For information on the goals and objectives
of the CLO please refer to the attached page of the April-June 1995
issue of Liberty, the quarterly journal of the CLO, which
also provides a list of CLO leaders and staff members for 1995. The
attached excerpts from the 1989 CLO Report on Human Rights in
Nigeria provides the same information for the year 1989.
According to the Amnesty International
Report 1997, Abdul Oroh, Executive Director of the Civil
Liberties Organisation, was released from prison in June 1997 after
being detained "without charge or trial since August 1995."
(247).
A 6 March 1998 International Press Service
(IPS) report states that former CLO president Olisa Agbakoba wanted
to bring the High Court of Nigeria to declare that "the alleged
beating of him by the police [...] amount to a violation of his
rights as guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution and the African
Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights."
A 15 January 1998 IPS report states that
the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) had sent
a letter of protest to President Abacha of Nigeria calling for the
release from prison of Ogoga Ifowodo, a staff member of the
CLO.
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.
References
Amnesty International. 1997. Amnesty
International Report 1997. New York: Amnesty International
USA.
International Press Service (IPS). 6
March 1998. Remi Oyo. "Politics(Nigeria: Human Rights Groups Take
Government to Court." (NEXIS)
_____. 15 January 1998. Danielle Knight.
"Rights(Nigeria: New Accusations of Arrest and Torture."
(NEXIS)
Attachments
Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO).
1989. Report on Human Rights In Nigeria. Lagos: Civil
Liberties Organisation. CLO statement and staff listing.
Liberty [Lagos]. April-June
1995. CLO statement and staff listing, p. 5.