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The special UN Rapporteur on Torture – Manfred Nowak – said recently that Nigerian police routinely tortures suspects to extract confessions about a crime. Nowak, who recently returned from a weeklong visit to Nigeria, said police frequently shoots suspects in the foot, flogs or threatens them with death. He described conditions in Nigerian police jails as demonstrating a total disrespect for human life and dignity.
Haz Iwendi is commissioner of police and first public relations officer for the Nigerian national police. He said the Nigerian police welcome Mr. Nowak’s comments, but ... Read more
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Macon Telegraph, GA
17 April 2007
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A man who was injured by police in a shooting that killed his brother was released from the hospital on Tuesday.
Roy Pettaway III, 27, was shot early Sunday by Fulton County police officers who were responding to a report of a fight at a bar. He was treated at Grady Memorial Hospital.
His brother, Ron Pettaway, 26, was killed.
Police said neither man had weapons. The Fulton County medical examiner's office said Ron Pettaway was shot in the back of the head. Police say Roy Pettaway was shot in the stomach, but family members say he was shot in the back.
The brothers' family is calling for a federal investigation into the shooting. Family spokesman the Rev. Markel Hutchins - who also represented the family of Kathryn Johnston, the elderly woman shot to death by Atlanta police officers serving a no-knock drug warrant on her northwest Atlanta home - called the shootings another example of excessive force by police in metro Atlanta.
Fulton County police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are investigating the Pettaway shootings. Fulton County Police Chief George Coleman said the two officers who shot the men have less than two years on the force.
The officers, who have not been named, are on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
Ron Pettaway's funeral will be held Saturday, on what would have been his 27th birthday, family members said.
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