How Nigerian Gov't infringed on Islamic Group’s right to assembly amid extrajudicial killings Shortly after Juma’at prayers on 14 April 2023, Umar Usman, 65, received a phone call that shook everyone in his family. His son, 19-year-old Yakubu Umar, had been shot by the police during the Quds Day procession in Abuja, the voice on the phone told him. Later that day, Mr Usman’s family received Yakubu’s corpse. “I couldn’t cry immediately until the next morning when they started praying for his corpse,” Narjis, the deceased’s sister, narrated at their home in Suleja,...