Sudburians protest police brutality in Nigeria

  1. Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
    Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Networkjpg, SU
  2. Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
    Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Networkjpg, SU
  3. Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
    Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Networkjpg, SU
  4. Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
    Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Networkjpg, SU
  5. Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
    Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Networkjpg, SU
  6. Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
    Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Networkjpg, SU
  7. Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
    Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Networkjpg, SU
  8. Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
    Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Networkjpg, SU
  9. Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
    Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Networkjpg, SU
  10. Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
    Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Networkjpg, SU
  11. Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
    Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Networkjpg, SU
  12. Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
    Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Networkjpg, SU

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Members of the Nigerian community in Greater Sudbury and their supporters gathered in Memorial Park in Sudbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 17, 2020, for an End SARS, or #ENDSARS event, calling for the Nigerian government to end the deployment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force and a controversial division known for police oppression and brutality. Nigerians have shared stories and video evidence of how SARS members have engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrests, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion. Protests in Nigeria have been violently oppressed, despite a recent announcement the Nigerian Police Force that it would dissolve SARS. Protests have spread around the world, with participants calling on the international community, including the Canadian government, to take action, and to push for sanctions against those who perpetrated the acts. For more information on Greater Sudbury's Nigerian community, visit www.facebook.com/thenigeriancommunitysudbury. Ben Leeson/The Sudbury Star/Postmedia Network
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