300 men and boys are freed from 'house of torture' Islamic boarding school where they were chained up, raped by staff and starved 'in the name of teaching them the Koran' in Nigeria
300 men and boys are freed from 'house of torture' Islamic boarding school where they were chained up, raped by staff and starved 'in the name of teaching them the Koran' in Nigeria More than 300 men and boys have been rescued from a 'house of torture' Islamic boarding school where they were detained and raped by staff for years in Kaduna, Nigeria. Many were found chained up and the detainees, mostly children, said they had been tortured, sexually abused, starved and prevented from leaving. Police raided a building in the city on Thursday where the victims were kept in 'the most debasing and inhuman conditions in the name of teaching them the Koran and reforming them', a police spokesperson said They were pictured with horrific scars on their backs and with their hands and feet in chains after their release. Kaduna state's chief of police Ali Janga said it was a case of 'human slavery' and they raided the house after an anonymo...