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

UK government faces court challenge in Nigerian rendition case

Nnamdi Kanu in a Nigerian court in Abuja earlier this year.
Nnamdi Kanu in a Nigerian court in Abuja earlier this year. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters

The family of a British citizen who was allegedly taken to Nigeria in an act of extraordinary rendition has been granted a court hearing to challenge the UK government for not intervening in his case.

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a prominent separatist movement proscribed in Nigeria, was arrested in Kenya in June last year before being transported against his will to Nigeria, where he has been held ever since.

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