Activists beneath the aegis of the Involved Indigenous Individuals of Biafra and Peaceable Global Consciousness Campaigners for Justice and Freedom staged a protest in Abuja on Wednesday, calling for worldwide intervention within the detention of Nnamdi Kanu.
The protesters, who carried placards condemning the “illegal detention and torture” of the IPOB chief, submitted a letter to diplomatic missions and worldwide establishments in Abuja.
Within the letter, the activists known as for “pressing global intervention” in Kanu’s case. Copies have been addressed to the United Nations, the USA Embassy, the British Excessive Fee, the Chief Prosecutor of the Worldwide Legal Courtroom, the Canadian Excessive Fee, the European Union delegation, the Australian Excessive Fee, the Embassies of France, Germany, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Turkey, Brazil, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Benin, and the Excessive Fee of South Africa, amongst others.
Dated November 12,:2025, the letter is titled ‘SOS – Pressing Global Humanitarian Intervention to Finish the Illegal Detention and Torture of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’ and was signed by the coalition chief, Mr Adindu Nkem.
The activists stated the protest and accompanying letter represented a global SOS enchantment for pressing humanitarian and diplomatic intervention in what they described because the illegal abduction and continued detention of Kanu, “who was kidnapped in Kenya and extra-judicially transferred to Nigeria in June 2021 — a transparent violation of worldwide legislation and the sovereignty of Kenya.”
The letter additional famous that, regardless of rulings by Nigerian courts, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and a number of other worldwide human rights resolutions ordering his unconditional launch, the Nigerian authorities continues to detain Kanu in solitary confinement beneath inhumane situations, “amounting to state-sponsored terrorism and torture.”
“As of now, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s well being has deteriorated gravely in DSS custody. His continued detention and the harassment of peaceable campaigners represent a direct risk to human life, justice, and global peace,” the letter added.
The protesters known as on world powers and worldwide establishments to behave instantly to implement all binding native and worldwide court docket orders for Kanu’s unconditional launch. In addition they urged the worldwide neighborhood to analyze and sanction these liable for his unlawful abduction from Kenya and ongoing torture in Nigeria, and to make sure the safety of peaceable IPOB members in opposition to arbitrary arrests, harassment, and persecution.
They appealed to world leaders to “acknowledge the extraordinary humanitarian urgency of this case and provoke emergency diplomatic dialogue to stop additional escalation.”
The letter said: “The kidnapping of a lawful self-determination chief from one other sovereign nation will not be a home subject — it’s worldwide terrorism. Failure to behave emboldens future violations in opposition to activists and journalists worldwide. We humbly urge your places of work to deal with this matter as a life-saving emergency and an ethical take a look at of global justice.”
The activists additionally demanded the designation of Nigeria as a terrorist state, citing persistent human rights violations, extrajudicial killings, kidnappings, torture, and suppression of peaceable self-determination actions by the Nigerian authorities and its safety companies, notably the DSS and the army.
They argued that the illegal abduction of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya, a overseas sovereign nation, with out due extradition course of, constitutes an act of worldwide terrorism and a grave violation of worldwide conventions on human rights and state sovereignty. They additional asserted that this singular act, mixed with the Nigerian State’s ongoing persecution, killings, and detention of peaceable IPOB members, displays a constant sample of state terrorism focused at civilians exercising their basic rights. In mild of this, the activists demanded that the United Nations, African Union, European Union, the USA, and different world powers urgently launch a global inquiry into Nigeria’s acts of state terrorism.
In addition they known as on the worldwide neighborhood to categorise Nigeria as a terrorist state till it ceases all types of illegal abductions, secret detentions, and focused violence in opposition to unarmed civilians. Equally there urge ICC to broaden its ongoing investigations into Nigeria to incorporate crimes in opposition to humanity, enforced disappearances, and transnational terrorism, and to impose focused sanctions on people and state establishments liable for these violations, notably the DSS management, the Legal professional Basic’s workplace, and the Presidency.
