<p>Abuja: Nigerian courts convicted 125 <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/boko-haram">Boko Haram</a> Islamist militants and financiers of a series of terrorism-related offences in a mass trial this week, the attorney-general's office said.</p><p>A Boko Haram insurgency has killed thousands of people and displaced millions since it began in 2009, creating a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria and putting pressure on the government to bring the conflict to an end.</p><p>Kamarudeen Ogundele, the spokesman of the Attorney-General's office, said in a statement late on Friday that "they were convicted of charges bordering on terrorism, terrorism financing, rendering material support, and cases relating to International Criminal Courts (ICC) criminality".</p>.How the US captured one of Mexico’s biggest drug lords.<p>The last mass trials of Boko Haram suspects took place between 2017 and 2018, where 163 people were convicted and 887 set free.</p><p>Ogundele added that from the previous convictions, 400 defendants who had completed their sentences were moved to a rehabilitation centre known as Operation Safe Corridor in Gombe State, northeast Nigeria "for rehabilitation, deradicalisation and subsequent reintegration".</p><p>Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls from a school in the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, an attack that sparked outrage and gave rise to the global "#Bring Back Our Girls" campaign, though more than half of the girls have returned, many as mothers of multiple children.</p><p>The breakdown of the latest convictions showed that 85 people were convicted for terrorism financing, 22 for ICC related crimes, while the rest were convicted for terrorism.</p>
<p>Abuja: Nigerian courts convicted 125 <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/boko-haram">Boko Haram</a> Islamist militants and financiers of a series of terrorism-related offences in a mass trial this week, the attorney-general's office said.</p><p>A Boko Haram insurgency has killed thousands of people and displaced millions since it began in 2009, creating a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria and putting pressure on the government to bring the conflict to an end.</p><p>Kamarudeen Ogundele, the spokesman of the Attorney-General's office, said in a statement late on Friday that "they were convicted of charges bordering on terrorism, terrorism financing, rendering material support, and cases relating to International Criminal Courts (ICC) criminality".</p>.How the US captured one of Mexico’s biggest drug lords.<p>The last mass trials of Boko Haram suspects took place between 2017 and 2018, where 163 people were convicted and 887 set free.</p><p>Ogundele added that from the previous convictions, 400 defendants who had completed their sentences were moved to a rehabilitation centre known as Operation Safe Corridor in Gombe State, northeast Nigeria "for rehabilitation, deradicalisation and subsequent reintegration".</p><p>Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls from a school in the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, an attack that sparked outrage and gave rise to the global "#Bring Back Our Girls" campaign, though more than half of the girls have returned, many as mothers of multiple children.</p><p>The breakdown of the latest convictions showed that 85 people were convicted for terrorism financing, 22 for ICC related crimes, while the rest were convicted for terrorism.</p>