Tortured Nigerian freed from death row

NIGERIA has signed a reprieve for a man who has been awaiting execution for a decade after confessing under torture to armed robbery as a teenager.

HUMAN rights activists say a Nigerian man condemned to hang when he was 16 because of confessions extracted under torture will be pardoned after 10 years on death row.

NIGERIAN activists and Amnesty International said on Monday that the outgoing governor of Delta State signed his reprieve last week.