Zinat Jimada

Zinat completed the BCL at the Faculty of Law at Oxford in 2021. She is a founding member of the Oxford Law Black Alumni Network and has featured in panel discussions on race and the law at Oxford. She was also a Bonavero Summer Fellow at REDRESS, an NGO that seeks justice and reparations for victims of torture and works to end torture globally. Before coming to Oxford, she obtained a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from Queen Mary University of London, where her research focused on statelessness and the right to nationality in international law. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Ghana, Legon. Zinat currently works at Rights and Security International, where she conducts legal research on rights-based approaches to national security. Her interests are in public international law, human rights and constitutional law.  

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Addressing Police Brutality in Nigeria – A Crisis of Non-Implementation

Addressing Police Brutality in Nigeria – A Crisis of Non-Implementation

For weeks in October 2020, young Nigerians held nationwide protests denouncing years of extra-judicial killings, torture and other ill-treatment by officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Nigeria Police Force ...