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Amnesty International has expressed concern that Nigerian authorities have yet to make public details of investigations or prosecutions over a mob attack on a court in Katsina State in July, when a crowd reportedly demanded the extrajudicial killing of a man accused of blasphemy.
The human rights organisation, in a statement posted on X, said a large crowd of children and young men carrying weapons had besieged a court in the Kofar Soro area on July 1, demanding that the defendant be killed.
Amnesty described the incident as an attack on the rule of law and called for those suspected of inciting or participating in the violence to be held accountable.
“The standard in Nigeria is rule of law, not ‘jungle justice’,” the organisation said.
The group also shared video footage showing a large, agitated crowd gathered outside court buildings, with some people raising their arms and recording the scene on mobile phones.
Amnesty said no public information had been released on investigations, arrests or prosecutions linked to the incident.
The organisation had previously condemned the court siege, linking it to a wider pattern of mob violence and disregard for due process in parts of northern Nigeria. It had urged the Katsina State government and security agencies to conduct a thorough investigation.
Amnesty International is deeply concerned that Nigerian authorities have not made public steps taken to ensure accountability for the dangerous incident of Wednesday 1st July 2026, at Kofar Soro area of Katsina, in which a large crowd of children and young men besieged a court carrying arms, violently demanding extrajudicial execution of someone on trial over an allegation of blasphemy.
The shocking incident was clearly an attack on the rule of law. The standard in Nigeria is rule of law, not ‘jungle justice.’
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Those suspected of inciting or participating in the mob must be effectively, fully and promptly held accountable under the law:
— Amnesty International Nigeria (@AmnestyNigeria) November 7, 2026
