{"id":406,"date":"2020-10-22T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T10:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/?p=406"},"modified":"2020-10-22T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T10:06:21","slug":"un-chief-calls-for-end-to-reported-police-brutality-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/2020\/10\/22\/un-chief-calls-for-end-to-reported-police-brutality-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief calls for end to reported police brutality in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UN\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Secretary-General<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday said he was closely following recent developments across Nigeria,\u00a0in the wake of\u00a0reports that protesters had been shot dead and\u00a0wounded,\u00a0and\u00a0called for \u201can end to reported police brutality and abuses.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ant\u00f3nio Guterres\u00a0said\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/content\/sg\/statement\/2020-10-21\/statement-attributable-the-spokesman-for-the-secretary-general-nigeria\" target=\"_blank\">in a statement<\/a>\u00a0issued by his Spokesperson that\u00a0he condemned \u201cthe violent escalation on 20 October in Lagos which resulted in multiple deaths and caused many injuries.\u201d\u00a0 According to witnesses, Nigerian security forces opened fire on Tuesday night in Africa\u2019s largest city,\u00a0as protests continued over a now-disbanded and discredited police unit, known as\u00a0the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or\u00a0SARS.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government has pledged to carry out further police\u00a0reforms, and\u00a0improve police accountability.\u00a0\u00a0 A curfew has been imposed on Lagos and other\u00a0parts of Nigeria, with reports that tensions continued into Wednesday, with police across the city\u00a0firing shots in the air,\u00a0in an effort to\u00a0disperse protesters who were defying the order to stay off the streets.\u00a0The UN chief expressed his condolences to the families of the\u00a0bereaved, and\u00a0wished a speedy recovery to those injured.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2020\/10\/1075842\">https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2020\/10\/1075842<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN\u00a0Secretary-General\u00a0on Wednesday said he was closely following recent developments across Nigeria,\u00a0in the wake of\u00a0reports that protesters had been shot dead and\u00a0wounded,\u00a0and\u00a0called for \u201can end to reported police brutality and abuses.\u201d\u00a0 Ant\u00f3nio Guterres\u00a0said\u00a0in a statement\u00a0issued by his Spokesperson that\u00a0he condemned \u201cthe violent escalation on 20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peace-and-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apstaafrica.org\/peacekeepingthismonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}