Document #1126112
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on the above-mentioned topic
could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB.
However, for general information on prison
conditions in Nigeria, please consult the excerpt from Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1995, which is attached to
this Response.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB 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
sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Attachment
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1995. 1996. United States Department of State.
Washington, DC. (Diskette version provided to DIRB by the
Immigration and Naturalization Service Resource Center. 14 March
1996)
Annual Report On Human Rights Violations
in Nigeria 1994 [Lagos]. Constitutional Rights Project.
Behind the Wall: A Report on Prison
Conditions in Nigeria and the Nigerian Prison System [Lagos].
1991.
Human Rights Situation in Nigeria: 1994
Annual Report [Lagos]. Committee for the Defence of Human
Rights.
Human Rights Watch Global Report on
Prisons [New York]. 1993.
News from Africa Watch [New York].
Various dates.
Observatoire international des prisons:
rapport 1995 [Lyon]. 1995.
Observatoire international des prisons:
rapport 1994 [Lyon]. 1994.
Oral sources
Note on oral sources:
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documentary sources have been exhausted. However, oral sources must
agree to be quoted in a publicly available Response to Information
Request. If they refuse, the Response will read "no information
could be found among the sources consulted." Contacting oral
sources is also subject to time constraints; for example, there are
periods of the year when academics are unavailable. Long distance
calls to Africa are often constrained by limited telecommunications
capacity.
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