The defense team of Nigeria's top cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky has expressed deep concern that the government is stalling the sheikh's trial despite the deteriorating health condition of the cleric and his wife.

Zakzaky was granted access to his doctors following a request by his legal team who argued that the doctor in the prison has admitted that he cannot handle the medical conditions of the Muslim cleric and his wife.

It’s been more than four years since the massacre has taken place in Zaria, Nigeria, where at least a thousand of the followers of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) were killed.

Nigeria, whether at the behest of some of its allies or acting on fatal misconception, keeps up its deadly campaign against the country’s Muslim leader and his followers.

Nigerian security forces use live fire to disperse people marking the fourth anniversary of state-authorized massacre against Muslims.

A political commentator says courts in Nigeria do not act independently.

It has been three years since a Nigerian court ordered the government to release the country's religious leader Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife when it ruled on a rights abuse case on 2 December 2016.

A victim of the 2015 Zaria Massacre has finally been discharged from the hospital after four years of several medical trips and stay in several medical facilities.

Nigerian police attacked the symbolic annual Arba'een march in Abuja on Friday. 

Nigerian security forces attack the followers of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), during a religious procession in the capital, Abuja.