Police raids in Abuja lead to arbitrary arrests for prostitution and sexual abuse in custody, via WMC WomenUndrSiege
“By publicizing our struggles, we have been able to see how our issues, though rooted in different cultural, racial, religious or sexual identities, still mirror each other,” added Adaku Ufere, a Nigerian human rights lawyer in Ghana who also helped organized the march.crowded outside Nigeria’s embassy with signs reading “Sex for bail is rape”; “Police everywhere justice nowhere”; “Arrest not assault, protect not molest”; and “To be a woman is not a crime.
“It’s cultural; learned and passed on,” said Maryam Awaisu, an activist and writer based in the northern state of Kaduna. Awaisu was arrested last February by agents of the police’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad in what Amnesty Internationalwas an attempt to intimidate her for supporting the Nigerian version of the global #MeToo movement. “It’s so prevalent, so those who have skeletons in their cupboards jump to defend those who have been outed.
In the Hausa language, “Arewa” is used to describe northern Nigeria, a majority Muslim and conservative region. In what stands as the first time that women in Arewa would open up on their experiences of sexual and physical violence, many female Twitter users from the north started naming and shaming their abusers with Hashim’s #ArewaMeToo hashtag.
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