Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the Nigerian authorities to take urgent measures to secure the release of victims of a recent mass school abduction. HRW denounced the mass abduction of hundreds of students and teachers in Nigeria’s northwest and central regions, describing them as deliberate attacks on education and fundamental rights.

HRW’s Nigerian researcher Anietie Ewang stated:

These mass school kidnappings once again lay bare the deliberate targeting of students, teachers, and schools in Nigeria’s deteriorating security environment… Children in Nigeria have the right to go to school without fearing for their lives. Nigerian authorities should prioritise the safe release of the kidnapped children and their teachers and bring those responsible for their abduction to just

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