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Place of Birth: Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria
About Semira Adamu
- Semira Adamu (1978–1998) was a 20-year-old asylum seeker from Nigeria who was suffocated to death with a pillow by two Belgian police officers who tried to calm her during their expulsion effort.
- She first fled Nigeria because of a forced marriage.On December 12th, 2003, four police were held responsible for this incident in the trial that followed.
- The Belgian state was ordered to pay compensation to the relatives.
- Adamu's death sparked a huge debate in Belgium and led to the Etienne Vermeersch report on the practice of expulsion.
- In September 1998 Louis Tobback, the Belgian Interior Minister, resigned after a wave of public protests against Adamu's death.
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