Access to Justice Archives - Page 3 of 10 - HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONFLICTS RESOLUTION CENTRE ABAKALIKI

June 12, 2025June 13, 2025

Visit to Nigerian Correctional Service Ebonyi State Command

Visit to Nigerian Correctional Service Ebonyi State Command: In continuation of our Advocacy and drive to ensure Access to Justice and Access to Mental Wellness for the inmates incarcerated in the correctional custodial centers, HRCRC visited the Comptroller of Corrections, Nigerian Correctional Service Ebonyi State Command OFFEM BESSIE BENEDICT, on the 5th day of June 2025.

The visit yielded positive results as the Comptroller assured us of robust collaboration to strengthen our drive to enhance justice delivery in the state.

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Visit to Nigerian Correctional Service Ebonyi State Command

May 9, 2025May 22, 2025

Conflict Early Warning and Response System (CEWARS) in Ebonyi State

Conflict Early Warning and Response System (CEWARS) in Ebonyi State: Keeping with our peace building mission with a focused emphasis on Conflict Prevention in Ebonyi State rather than responses, and continuing our establishment of Conflict Early Warning and Response System in Ebonyi State, We brought together the trained Early Warning Signs reporters to meet and interface with the Government Stakeholders and Security Agencies and Civil Society responsible for Response. While we continue to play the role of the intermediary for analysis and connection, it is our hope that this system established in the three pilot LGs of Ikwo, Ishielu, and Ohaukwu will be upscaled to all the Local Governments, communities, and zones.

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April 14, 2025April 14, 2025

Continuation of Prison Decongestion

Continuation of Prison Decongestion: For about 4 years, HRCRC has been representing and trying to secure the release of 36 inmates incarcerated in the Abakaliki Correctional Custodial Center (Prisons) unjustly. These inmates had been discharged by four different courts on four different occasions in the course of our interventions but their detention continued.

Gleefully, 12 of these inmates were discharged again yesterday and were released from detention. As we continue the fight to ensure the release of the others as well as other unjustly incarcerated inmates, we thank all through whose support, collaboration, and cooperation this was achieved.

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February 13, 2025February 19, 2025

HRCRC Secures the Release of Over 25 inmates from Abakaliki Prisons

HRCRC Secures the Release of Over 25 inmates from Abakaliki Prisons: Over the past 4 years, HRCRC represented about 30 inmates who were incarcerated in the Abakaliki Correctional Center (prisons) along with over 140 others in connection to a communal conflict in Ebonyi State. These individuals were denied bail and due process in courts and were detained by the state awaiting trial for over 3 years.

After a successful Alternative Dispute Resolution of said conflict facilitated by the Ebonyi State Government, over 150 awaiting trial inmates were released from detention in an atmosphere that was both exciting and broody.

HRCRC continues to advocate against the illegal and many times unjustified detention of individuals in our already oversaturated Correctional Centers that breed Human Rights Abuses, poor inhumane living conditions and practices, and other criminal tendencies.

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January 28, 2025January 28, 2025

HRCRC RELEASED TWO INMATES FROM CORRECTIONAL CENTER ABAKALIKI.

Following our resolve to decongest the correctional centers, Last week, HRCRC again facilitated the release of two inmates from the Abakaliki Correctional Center who have been in custody for over two (2) years without any witnesses.

The Abakaliki Correctional Center is currently housing over 1658 inmates awaiting trial, exceeding its capacity of about 370 inmates in overwhelming proportions. This overcrowding logically results in poor living condition, and increased risk of human rights violations.

We are grateful to the Honorable Attorney General of the Ebonyi State, Hon. Ben Uruchi Odoh, the Ministry of Justice and other actors in the Justice Sector who are open and deeply involved in the mission of restoring Human Dignity in our Justice System.