{"id":1035652,"date":"2023-03-23T18:04:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2023\/mar\/23\/high-court-dismisses-challenge-to-uks-handling-of-case-of-man-held-in-nigeria"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:04:45","slug":"brother-of-biafra-separatist-held-in-nigeria-loses-court-challenge-against-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/23\/brother-of-biafra-separatist-held-in-nigeria-loses-court-challenge-against-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother of Biafra separatist held in Nigeria loses court challenge against UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK government not required to state whether Nnamdi Kanu, a British national, was victim of extraordinary rendition, judge rules <\/p><p>The brother of a British national being held in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> after falling victim to extraordinary rendition has said he is disappointed after the high court dismissed his challenge to UK ministers\u2019 handling of the case.<\/p><p>Kingsley Kanu, brother of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a prominent separatist movement proscribed in Nigeria, claimed that three foreign secretaries \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jun\/12\/liz-truss-accused-of-ignoring-evidence-of-rendition-of-uk-citizen-to-nigeria\">Liz Truss<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/arrested-biafra-separatists-family-accuse-raab-of-unlawful-failure\">Dominic Raab<\/a> and then James Cleverly \u2013 had acted unlawfully by failing to reach a view on whether he had been subjected to extraordinary rendition.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2023\/mar\/23\/high-court-dismisses-challenge-to-uks-handling-of-case-of-man-held-in-nigeria\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2023\/mar\/23\/high-court-dismisses-challenge-to-uks-handling-of-case-of-man-held-in-nigeria\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK government not required to state whether Nnamdi Kanu, a British national, was victim of extraordinary rendition, judge rules The brother of a British national being held in Nigeria after falling victim to extraordinary rendition has said he is disap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,6,640,1277,1236,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035655,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035652\/revisions\/1035655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}