Amnesty International (AI) has asked the federal government to immediately release “thousands of people” who have been subjected to enforced disappearance in various parts of the country. The human rights watchdog said a lot of Nigerians are being held in secret detention facilities across the country without being tried before any court of law. It said this in a statement issued by Isa Sanusi, its spokesman, to mark the International Day of the disappeared. AI accused the federal government of employing enforced disappearance as a “longstanding tactic to silence critics and instill fear in civilian populations” in different parts of