Nigeria 'uses torture officers to extract confessions'
This teenage boy arrested for being a suspected militant had melted plastic poured on his back in 2013Torture has become such an integral part of policing in Nigeria that many stations have an informal torture officer, Amnesty International says.
Both the military and police use a wide range of torture methods including beatings, nail and teeth extractions and other sexual violence, it says.
One woman accused of theft said she was sexually assaulted, and had tear gas sprayed into her vagina.
The Nigerian government has not yet responded to the rights group's report.
Entitled Welcome to Hell Fire, it says people are often detained in large dragnet operations and tortured as punishment, to extort money or to extract "confessions" as a way to solve cases.
An electrified baton is used on a person to make them talk”
Former soldierThe use of torture is particularly extreme in the north-east in the war against Boko Haram Islamist militants, Amnesty International says.
The UK-based rights group says between 5,000 and 10,000 people have been arrested there since 2009, and executions in overcrowded detention facilities are common.
-- kenneth w. harrow faculty excellence advocate professor of english michigan state university department of english 619 red cedar road room C-614 wells hall east lansing, mi 48824 ph. 517 803 8839 harrow@msu.edu
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