Iran Press/Africa: The leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), who has been held in detention since December 2015 following a deadly raid by the Nigerian army troops on his residence in the country’s northern Kaduna State is in a dire health and medical situation, medical team visit him announced earlier.
"Lead and cadmium levels are high in his blood which is fatal," the doctors say, "his liver is also damaged."
Some say that the elements found in his blood may be due to the poisoned food he has consumed in detention while some believe that lead and cadmium are in his blood since lead shrapnells have been in his body from the time he was in prison and the Nigerian government did not allow any medical treatments for their removal after detention.
Sheikh Zakzaky, who is in his mid-sixties, lost his left eyesight in the raid. His wife also sustained serious wounds.
A report published by a commission in Nigeria in Aug 2016 said that the country’s army killed 348 Shia Muslims during an attack on their religious ceremony on December 2015 near Sheikh Zakzaky residence and Hussainiya.
The commission says the fatalities are those who have been accounted for following the attack on the home and school of Ibraheem Zakzaky, the leader of Nigeria’s Islamic movement, in Zaria.
It says 347 bodies were secretly buried in a mass grave.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Islamic Movement of Nigeria said more than 800 people remain missing following the 2015 raid including those in detention. Zakzaky himself was shot seven times and blinded in one eye during the raid.
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