jungle justice

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jungle justice

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Nigeria, uncountable Extrajudicial punishment, including lynching. 2025, 1 September, Chris Ewokor, Mob burns Nigerian woman to death for alleged blasphemy (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y21zxyd6mo Police condemned the killing of the woman - identified in local media as a food vendor named Amaye - as "jungle justice", saying that an investigation

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@misc{jungle_justice_2026,
  title = {jungle justice},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/jungle%20justice},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}