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Nov
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigerian court hears blasphemy conviction appeals in northern city Kano

Nigerian court hears blasphemy conviction appeals in northern city Kano

NEWS
HAMZA IBRAHIM TWO judges in northern Nigeria have heard the first appeals against Islamic law blasphemy convictions that caused global outrage when a man was sentenced to death over a WhatsApp message and a 13-year-old received a 10-year jail term. The judges, at the appeals section of the secular high court in the city of Kano, said verdicts would be delivered at a later date. In August, a Kano sharia court sentenced Yahaya Aminu Sharif to death for allegedly sharing a blasphemous message on WhatsApp and Omar Farouq, accused of making blasphemous comments in an argument, received a prison sentence.…
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Sep
28
2020
By The African Mirror
Auschwitz memorial director offers to share Nigerian boy’s blasphemy jail term

Auschwitz memorial director offers to share Nigerian boy’s blasphemy jail term

NEWS
THE head of Poland's Auschwitz Memorial has written to Nigeria's president offering to serve part of a 10-year jail term handed to a 13-year-old boy for blasphemy. Piotr Cywinski requested a pardon for Omar Farouq, who was accused of making blasphemous statements during an argument and sentenced by a sharia court in Nigeria's northern Kano state last month. If a pardon was not possible, Cywinski said he and 119 other volunteers would take on the boy's punishment and each spend a month in a Nigerian jail. As the director of a memorial to a place "where children were imprisoned and…
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