El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zenaat, have been denied their travel documents and cannot travel abroad for medical treatment, the Academy Forum of IMN, has said.
The organisation therefore called on the international community to intervene and prevail on the Federal Government to obey the court order and release the couple’s passports.
The spokesperson for IMN, Abdullahi Muhammad, said this in a petition to the United Nations, European Union, Amnesty International, National Human Rights Commission, Canada, Norway and Switzerland.
Court which apart from discharging and acquitting Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, Malama Zeenat, serves yet as another opportunity for them to travel for the long awaited, and even long overdue, medical treatment, government has decided to defy the judgement and frustrate the overseas trip as it continues to hinder the couple from retrieving their travel documents.
“Having had the documents confiscated during their aborted medical trip to India, the couple remains stranded. But, due to the fact that the medical leave granted by the Kaduna State High Court didn’t require security agents to sequester any travel documents, the seizure was beyond the bounds of legality, a pure transgression.
“It is glaringly obvious that the government is only bending the laws of the land in its pursuit of an unjust cause. The couple’s medical reports, submitted to the court in 2019 through their counsel, Femi Falana (SAN), brought about its acquiescence in the medical leave to the Asian subcontinent.’’
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