The United Kingdom Court of Appeal has fixed June 22, 2023 to hear the appeal of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s extraordinary rendition.
Lord Justice Lewis, a senior British Court of Appeal judge, has granted the family of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu permission to appeal the UK High Court judgment that found that the British authorities could lawfully evade reaching any conclusion on whether Kanu has been tortured, subjected to extraordinary rendition and arbitrarily detained.
Kanu is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. He is being detained at the custody of the Department of State Services after being renditioned from Kenya to Nigeria in 2021.
Kanu is charged with running a proscribed group, jumping bail in 2017, and treason. Despite copious court orders for his release, the federal government has sought his continued detention at the Supreme Court.
The order for the family to appeal was given on 8th May 2023. Recall that in a ruling on 23rd March 2023, the UK High Court had declined Kanu family’s suit for judicial review of the failure of the British government to reach a firm view in Nnamdi Kanu’s extraordinary rendition. This earlier ruling prompted an application for leave to appeal to British Court of Appeal by the Bindmans LLP, the UK law firm representing the Kanu family in the case.
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