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Nigerian police rescue 67 from 'inhuman' conditions at Islamic 'school'

People are pictured after being rescued by police in Sabon Garin, in Daura local government area of Katsina State, Nigeria in October 14, 2019. (Reuters)

Police in northern Nigeria rescued nearly 70 men and boys from a second purported Islamic school where they were shackled and subjected to “inhuman and degrading treatments.”

The raid in Katsina, the northwestern home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, came less than a month after about 300 men and boys were freed from another supposed Islamic school in neighboring Kaduna state where they were allegedly tortured and sexually abused.

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