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500 shackled children freed from third Islamic boarding school in north Nigeria
Police have freed hundreds of manacled boys from a madrassa in northern Nigeria for the third time in a...
Officers leading a raid on the Mal Niga school in the city of Katsina late on Wednesday found more than 500 boys and young men, many of whom had been chained to walls, molested and…
- Andrian Blomfield
- The Telegraph
The discovery followed a pattern that has become grimly familiar in Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north. More than 1,200 males, some as young as five, have been freed in three police operations since late…
In all three cases, many were found to have been beaten, starved, sexually…