{"id":818490,"date":"2022-09-29T12:51:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/29\/uk-government-faces-court-challenge-in-nigerian-rendition-case-nnamdi-kanu"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:51:57","slug":"uk-government-faces-court-challenge-in-nigerian-rendition-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/29\/uk-government-faces-court-challenge-in-nigerian-rendition-case\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government faces court challenge in Nigerian rendition case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family of Nnamdi Kanu granted judicial review over failure of Britain to intervene after arrest last year<\/p>\n<p>The family of a British citizen who was allegedly taken to Nigeria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/09\/biafra-separatist-leader-abducted-nigeria-kenya-family-alleges-nnamdi-kanu\">in an act of extraordinary rendition<\/a> has been granted a court hearing to challenge the UK government for not intervening in his case.<\/p>\n<p>Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a prominent separatist movement proscribed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>, was arrested in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> in June last year before being transported against his will to Nigeria, where he has been held ever since.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/29\/uk-government-faces-court-challenge-in-nigerian-rendition-case-nnamdi-kanu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family of Nnamdi Kanu granted judicial review over failure of Britain to intervene after arrest last yearThe family of a British citizen who was allegedly taken to Nigeria in an act of extraordinary rendition has been granted a court hearing to challen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,1318,7411,6,640,1277,1236,1314,1,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818490"}],"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=818490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818688,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818490\/revisions\/818688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}