Katsina mob attack: Standard in Nigeria is rule of law, not jungle justice – Amnesty 

Amnesty International Nigeria has condemned what it described arsenic the increasing menace of mob unit and “jungle justice” successful bluish Nigeria pursuing an incidental successful Katsina authorities wherever a assemblage reportedly besieged a tribunal demanding the extrajudicial execution of a suspect facing a blasphemy allegation.
In a connection issued connected Friday, the quality rights organisation said the incidental occurred connected Wednesday, July 1, 2026, successful the Kofar Soro country of Katsina town, describing it arsenic a superior battle connected the regularisation of instrumentality and the medication of justice.

According to Amnesty International, a ample assemblage of children and young men, allegedly equipped with assorted weapons, surrounded the tribunal and demanded that the accused beryllium executed without owed process.

“The modular successful Nigeria is the regularisation of law, not ‘jungle justice’,” the organisation said, informing that specified actions undermine law guarantees of a just trial, irrespective of the allegations against an accused person.

Amnesty International linked the Katsina incidental to the caller sidesplitting of Ummulkhairi, a teacher and parent of five, who was reportedly burned to decease by a mob successful Mararabar Jos, Kaduna State, astir 10 days earlier implicit allegations that she attempted...