The death has occurred of Sheikh Qaseem Umar Sokoto, who was shot by Nigerian Police while peacefully protesting against the illegal detention of Sheikh Zakzaky ‐ the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria.
Sheikh Qaseem was receiving treatment at a private facility in Kano where he was taken to, when the police acting on a tip off from the always reliable Mahmoud the Weasel, identified and shot him in Abuja some weeks back.Sheikh Qaseem was a learned teacher and an integral contributor to the IMN. He suffered so much persecution especially during the previous administration of Wammako in Sokoto State, when he was violently tossed in the calaboose
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
along with hundreds of members in 2007 but was set free by the courts in 2014 after a tortuous court case.
Only last week, the Federal High Court in Sokoto ruled in the favour of the members of the Movement in the case instituted by Sheikh Qaseem, for the enforcement of fundamental rights of members to practice their faith without hindrance or molestation by the government or its security agencies or their proxies.
We demand justice for his death as well as for all those who have suffered in the wake of the massacre in Zaria in 2015.