# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/semira-adamu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:58:02.807Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/semira-adamu"
name: "Semira Adamu"
slug: "semira-adamu"
description: "Semira Precious Adamu was a 20-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker who was suffocated to death by two Belgian police officers on a aeroplane in Brussels, Belgium, during her forced deportation on September 22, 1998. The police officers recorded video footage of themselves exchanging jokes as they pushed her head deep into a pillow for 20 minutes with her hands and ankles handcuffed; during which Adamu had stopped breathing for 7 to 8 minutes. She died in the St Luc Hospital later the same day at 9:32pm. When the court asked why so much force was used, one of the officers said that it was necessary \"to avoid disturbing other passengers\"."
tagline: "Twenty year old Nigerian woman killed in Belgium."
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Semira_Adamu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1978-06-17"
deathDate: "1998-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.36
  momentum:             3.116918103448276
  historical:           9.218144
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  198
  category: 249
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Semira_Adamu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semira_Adamu"
    title: "Semira Adamu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semira_Adamu"
    title: "Semira Adamu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semira_Adamu"
    title: "Semira Adamu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semira_Adamu"
    title: "Semira Adamu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semira_Adamu"
    title: "Semira Adamu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semira_Adamu"
    title: "Semira Adamu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semira_Adamu"
    title: "Semira Adamu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semira_Adamu"
    title: "Semira Adamu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83"
    title: "Семира Адаму"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dood_van_Semira_Adamu"
    title: "Dood van Semira Adamu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1962410"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump