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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Mutiny |
Sentence: |
Exonerated After Conviction But Prior to Sentencing |
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Year Crime: |
2014 |
Year Convicted: |
2014 |
Year Cleared: |
2015 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Nigeria |
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Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Three Thousand thirty-two Nigerian military officers and enlisted soldiers were wrongly convicted in 2014 after military trials of mutiny for refusing to fight against Boko Haram Islamist militants. In August 2015 Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office on May 29, 2015, pardoned the 3,032 soldiers on the basis they didn't commit mutiny, but only demanded vital equipment necessary to effectively fight agaisnt the well-armed Boko Haram insurgents. The soldiers were considered rehabilitated, and were reinstated by the Nigerian military on September 3, 2015. The soldiers then requested that they be paid their salary arrears." |
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Innocence Proved By: |
"In August 2015 Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari pardoned the 3,032 soldiers on the basis they didn't commit Mutiny, but only declined to fight because they were given inferior weapons to effectively fight Boko Haram insurgents." |
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Sex: |
Male |
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Information Source 1: |
"Nigerian Army Confirms the Pardon, Reinstatement of 3,032 Convicted Soldiers, By Staff writer, This Day (Lagos, Nigeria), September 4, 2015" |
Information Location 1: |
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigerian-army-confirms-the-pardon-reinstatement-of-3-032-convicted-soldiers/219339/ |
Information Source 2: |
"B'Haram: Pardoned Soldiers Plead For Salary Arrears, By Olusola Fabiyi (staff writer), Punch (Lagos, Nigeria), September 22, 2015" |
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http://www.punchng.com/news/bharam-pardoned-soldiers-plead-for-salary-arrears/ |
Information Source 3: |
"Why President Buhari Forgave Soldiers That Refused To Fight Boko Haram, By Staff writers, Nigeria Daily News, September 22, 2015" |
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http://www.nigeriannewspapers.today/why-president-buhari-forgave-soldiers-that-refused-to-fight-boko-haram/ |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org