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

Three UK foreign secretaries ‘failed to call for release of Briton held in Nigeria’

Nnamdi Kanu
The Nigerian government has admitted to taking Nnamdi Kanu, pictured, without any warrant of arrest or extradition. Photograph: AP

Three British foreign secretaries have failed to call for the release of a British national being held in Nigeria after falling victim to a “brazen and violent” act of extraordinary rendition, the high court has heard.

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a prominent separatist movement proscribed in Nigeria, was abducted, unlawfully detained and tortured in Kenya in June last year before being flown blindfolded on a private plane to Nigeria, the court was told on Monday.

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