Teenage boy martyred as Nigerian forces open fire on Sheikh Zakzaky supporters

A teenage boy has been martyred after Nigerian police used live ammunition to disperse protesters demanding the release of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky in the country’s northwestern state of Kaduna.

A teenage boy has been martyred after Nigerian police used live ammunition to disperse protesters demanding the release of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky in the country’s northwestern state of Kaduna.

According to sources, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), in a post published on its official Twitter page on Thursday, announced that dozens of people staged a rally in the state capital city of Kaduna, located 198 kilometers northeast of the capital Abuja, the previous day when police assaulted the participants and opened fire at them indiscriminately.

A 15-year-old secondary school student, identified as Muhammad Jawwad Liman, was shot and killed as a result.

Sheikh Zakzaky, who is in his mid-60s, has been in detention since December 2015 after his residence in the city of Zaria was raided by Nigeria’s forces, during which he was beaten and lost vision in his left eye.

During the brutal arrest, three of his sons were martyred, his wife sustained serious wounds, and more than 300 of his followers were also martyred.