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A human rights lawyer has claimed that three convicted criminals have been secretly executed in the first hangings in Nigeria since 2003.

The executions breached a seven-year moratorium on the death penalty here.

Chino Obiagwu of the Legal Defence and Assistance Project said three men who had been death row inmates for 20 years were hanged in Benin Prison, Edo state on December 23 after being convicted for armed robbery.