One of the lawyers handling Sunday Igboho’s case in Benin Republic, Ibrahim Salami, has lamented that the activist is facing serious maltreatment.
According to Salami, Igboho has been in handcuff despite him being in locked police cell.
The lawyer spoke on Saturday in a Facebook Live Interview with BBC News Yoruba.
He explained, “We are five lawyers handling his case. When we visited Sunday Adeyemo at the police station, he was not beaten but what they did that is alien to the law here is that they handcuffed him inside the police cell after locking the cell. This makes eating and movement within the cell difficult for him to the extent that someone has been helping him in this regard.
“Apart from being a lawyer, I am also a professor of law at a university here in Benin Republic. Part of what we teach our students is human rights. Human rights frown at the action of the police.
“I called the attention of the police commander and the prosecutor to this but still nothing changed. At the moment, Sunday Igboho’s hands are in chains at the police station. This is not good at all.”
FirstNews had reported Igboho and his wife were arrested in a Benin Republic airport while trying to fly to Germany. He was arraigned in court on Thursday where his wife was released while his case would continue on Monday.