{"id":653699,"date":"2019-07-10T12:38:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T12:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">There have been violent clashes outside Nigeria\u2019s National Assembly between police and Shia protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters say officers shot two people dead, but the police said they had used \u201cminimum force\u201d an"},"modified":"2019-07-10T12:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T12:38:48","slug":"violent-clashes-at-shia-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/10\/violent-clashes-at-shia-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent clashes at Shia protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">There have been violent clashes outside Nigeria\u2019s National Assembly between police and Shia protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters say officers shot two people dead, but the police said they had used \u201cminimum force\u201d and that eight security personnel were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the pro-Iran Shia Muslim sect, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), were protesting against the detention of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky.<\/p>\n<p>He has been detained since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that two of their officers had been shot in the leg and six others injured by clubs and stones.<\/p>\n<p>They added that 40 members of the sect had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>IMN member, Abdullahi Muhammad Musa, told Reuters that police opened fire, killing two protesters, as they tried to enter the assembly building peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Zakzaky\u2019s followers have been protesting regularly since he was arrested in the aftermath of clashes between his followers and the army.<\/p>\n<p>The army had accused his followers of attempting to assassinate the chief of army staff, which the IMN denied.<\/p>\n<p>The army killed 347 members of the IMN in those clashes, whereas one soldier was killed, a judicial review found.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Zakzaky made his first public court appearance since he was arrested in May 2018 in Kaduna High Court in north-west Nigeria. The case continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/_104117146_gettyimages-498962054.jpg\" alt=\"Shia Muslims march on the highway during a symbolic procession commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Ashura religious ceremony on 2 November 2015 in the village of Dakasoye, northern Nigeria\"\/><\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Shias are a minority in Nigeria but their numbers are increasing<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">The IMN, formed in the 1980s, is the main Shia group led by Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">It operates its own schools and hospitals in some northern states<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">It has a history of clashes with the security forces<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">The IMN is backed by Shia-dominated Iran and its members often go there to study<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Sunni jihadist group Boko Haram condemns Shias as heretics who should be killed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been violent clashes outside Nigeria\u2019s National Assembly between police and Shia protesters. 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