Nigeria courts convict 125 Boko Haram Islamist insurgents in mass trial

27/7/2024 17:13

        Nigerian courts convicted 125 Boko Haram Islamist militants and financiers of a series of terrorism-related offences in a mass trial this week, the attorney-general's office said.
        
        A Boko Haram insurgency has killed thousands of people and displaced millions since it began in 2009, creating a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria and putting pressure on the government to bring the conflict to an end.
        
        Kamarudeen Ogundele, the spokesman of the Attorney-General's office, said in a statement late on Friday that "they were convicted of charges bordering on terrorism, terrorism financing, rendering material support, and cases relating to International Criminal Courts (ICC) criminality".
        
        The last mass trials of Boko Haram suspects took place between 2017 and 2018, where 163 people were convicted and 887 set free.