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Lagos residents protest police brutality after dismantling of SARS unit

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Demonstrations against police violence continue in Nigeria, bringing together hundreds of people in economic capital Lagos despite the dissolution of the controversial SARS police unit the day before. In June, a report by Amnesty International listed what it alleged were 82 cases of torture, ill treatment and extra-judicial execution by the SARS between January 2017 and May 2020. IMAGES

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