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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Liz Truss accused of ignoring evidence of rendition of UK citizen to Nigeria

Nnamdi Kanu at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria in 2016.
Nnamdi Kanu at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria in 2016. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters

The family of a British citizen have accused the foreign secretary of ignoring “overwhelming evidence” he was taken to Nigeria in an act of extraordinary rendition and failing to end his “unlawful” imprisonment there.

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a prominent separatist movement proscribed in Nigeria, has been held there since June last year.

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