(c) Mob justice

(p) Take effective measures, including judicial measures, to prevent mob justice

This scene Mob Justice has gradually become a normal way of life in Nigeria.

It also carried out sensitization campaigns on mob justice, international human rights standards, sexual violence, IDPs and election related issues.

A new worrying trend is the killing of detainees during attempts to escape from prison, and the phenomenon of mob justice.

If passed into law it would introduce jail sentences and fines for perpetrators of mob justice and the communities where the violence takes place.

He currently heads a mob.

In Karuzi province, where the problem was especially acute, HRD held a sensitization session on mob justice attended by some 500 residents, including a traditional healer.

The tragic deaths of the students now known as the Aluu4 have caused outrage and plenty of online discussion about the serious problem of mob justice in Nigeria.

And for years we have complained, we have cried and we have watched, but nothing has changed as Mob Justice still occurs with its perpetrators largely going unpunished.

Now we know that there are no dependable statistics or numbers regarding Mob Justice occurrences in Nigeria, but what we do know is that has been happening for years.

ONUB also documented at least 30 cases of mob justice, in which suspects were beaten to death, burnt alive and their houses burnt down or destroyed, indicating the extent of discontent with and mistrust of the justice system within the population.

In total, more than 550 violations of the right to life, including as a result of mob justice , were reported by ONUB human rights observers during the period under review.

In an email interview, Kathleen Ndongmo, a Cameroonian citizen based in Lagos, Nigeria who has been active in the campaign, describes how they hope to inspire more action against mob justice

The independent expert was informed of 96 cases of violation of the right to life as a result of mob justice most of the cases 72 occurred in Muyinga, Cankuzo and Karuzi provinces.

But also exacerbating the matter is the absence and lack of recognition of Mob Justice (and its many variations) as a crime in our Federal Laws, most particularly our CRIMINAL CODE ACT, CAP C38 LFN 2004.

Democracy always degenerated into mob rule, monarchy into tyranny, and aristocracy into oligarchy.

It is based on a true story of a mob war in South Philadelphia.

Now Thaksin loyalists the red shirts are doing much the same, demanding change through mob behavior.

It is also likely that some radical hot heads wanted to overthrow the government by mob action.

Ancient Greek had two words for the people the demos of democracy and the laos of the mob.

We must fight Islamic extremism, but not by tapping into the darkest gut feelings of the unthinking mob.

On my way out of Rabaa I was confronted by a resident vigilant mob which stole my equipment.

But he also admits that people inside the building barricaded the main doors, fearing a lynch mob outside.

He is a member of the hip hop collective A AP Mob, from which he adopted his moniker.

The violence lasted several hours, during which the mob cut the throats of many men, women and children.

The flash mob was originally made some months before by two Tunisian civil society associations, Engagement Citoyens and ACTIF.

amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

The National and Jakarta police chiefs were called and, under massive public pressure, the leaders of the mob were criminally charged.

For example, during Ramadan prayers last October, a mob of a 1,000 people razed a mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.

During a lecture at Uppsala University last summer, a mob attacked Vilks, a professor of art history, while crying Allahu akbar.

Crime has no nationality and it falls to the government, not to an angry mob, to react to it, she underlined.

Such people might be those belonging to the British lynch mob which last year attacked a pediatrician in mistake for a pedophile.

In the absence of the rule of law, the rule of man, mob rule or the law of the jungle will prevail.

For Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, that imperative meant placating the angry mob that recently attacked the US embassy rather than merely condemning the violence.

As for the mention in paragraph 20 of the killing of detainees during attempts to escape from prison and the exercise of mob justice, the former was a universal phenomenon, while as for the latter, it was only to be expected in a country without a properly functioning judicial system and was, in any case, declining.

So when the echo of the gunshots had lingered, it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing.

Just a few weeks later, a mob attacked Israel s embassy in Cairo, forcing the evacuation of Israeli diplomats and creating a major row with Egypt s fragile interim government.

A march demanding an end to sexual harassment turned ugly when women involved were attacked by a mob of angry men in Tahrir Square today (June 8, 2012).

(b) Enhancing criminal justice reform, including restorative justice

Spatial justice links together social justice and space.

It is not clear from the video whether she was ambushed while returning to her home, or if the mob stormed her home and dragged her into the street.

Workshop 2 Enhancing Criminal Justice Reform, including Restorative Justice

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Trying to help resolve the situation peacefully, I was persuaded to negotiate at the Central Jakarta Police Station, but found to my horror that the mob leaders controlled the station.