IMN leader Zakzaky granted bail to travel India for medical treatment

The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat have been granted bail by a high court in Kaduna state to travel India for medical treatment, according to local media reports.

The IMN leader, who has been in detention since 2015, had applied for medical bail, citing poor health. He was arrested after some of his followers clashed with soldiers in Zaria, Kaduna state.

On Friday 25 July 2014, the Nigerian Army reportedly fatally shot 35 followers of Ibrahim Zakzaky, including three of his sons, after a pro-Palestinian procession in Zaria.

Sheikh al-Zakzaky was injured and arrested along with his wife, in the 2015 Zaria massacre, in which three of his remaining sons, as well as hundreds of his followers, were reportedly killed by the Nigerian Army.

The Zaria massacre was a massacre carried out by the Nigerian Army in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria on Saturday, 12 December 2015, against Shia Muslims, mostly members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria. At least 348 civilians were killed, with 347 bodies secretly buried by the army in a masse grave.[6]

The Army claimed that it had responded to an attempt to assassinate Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai by the Islamic Movement in Nigeria