Police brutality activist says she was barred from leaving Nigeria
LIBBY GEORGE NIGERIAN immigration officials blocked a prominent anti-police brutality activist from leaving the country and confiscated her passport, she has told Reuters. There was no immediate response from immigration authorities to requests for comment on the assertion by Modupe Odele, a lawyer who has helped arrange legal defence for protesters campaigning against police violence. Odele said that when she tried to board an international flight at Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos on Nov. 1, immigration authorities told her that she was under military investigation and thus barred from leaving Nigeria. When she met immigration authorities on November 3, they…