ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian court Friday rejected a request to free a separatist leader, ruling that prosecutors had presented enough evidence for him to face terrorism charges brought by the government.

The court ruled that the Nigerian government has established enough evidence for a case against Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, or IPOB, separatist group that seeks independence for Nigeria’s southeastern region.

The verdict comes more than a year after the country’s Supreme Court reinstated terrorism charges against Kanu. In the lower court, Kanu argued that the government had no case against him.

Kanu, who holds British citizenship, has been in and out of detention since 2015, when he was first arrested and charged with terrorism and treason. He jum

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