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    LOCKDOWN: Police Arrest Officers in Viral Video Torturing Woman in Osun State

    • Date of Occurrence
      April 19, 2020
    • State/Country
      Osun State, Nigeria
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    A video has since gone viral on the internet showing police officers assaulting a woman in Iwo, Osun State for maintaining lockdown directives by sitting outside her house.

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    The State's Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson Kokumo, ordered the arrest and detention of the suspected erring officers.

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    • Date of Occurrence

      2020-04-19

    • State/Country

      Osun State, Nigeria

    • Perpetrator

      The Police

    • Source

      https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/04/lockdown-police-arrest-officers-in-viral-video-torturing-woman-in-osun

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    • South West
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    • Right to Dignity
    Gender of Victim(s)
    • Female
    Mode of Attacks
    • Acts of Intimidation
    • Physical Attacks
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    • COVID-19
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