A Nigerian inmate is claiming he was “humiliated” by a full-body search, accused of being a ringleader and transferred into another division the day after he complained about prison food.

Joseph Feilazoo said that the morning after he complained, he was woken up abruptly at 6.30am and taken to a room where he was stripped and “forced to squat and the orifices of his body were searched”.

Mr Feilazoo made these allegations in a judicial protest, filed in the First Hall of the Civil Court, against the director of the Corradino Correctional Facility and the Home Affairs’ Minister.

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