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  1. danieldemol

    Blasphemy Laws: Why We Muslims Need a Second Thought By Aliyu Bashir Limanci

    'Over a year after the arrest of Kano's famous humanist, Mubarak Bala who has been arrested and detained without trial, Kano is at it again, but this time it is a popular Muslim cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara being accused and prosecuted for blasphemy. Unlike the mainstream Sunni...
  2. danieldemol

    Nigeria: Man stoned to death, set ablaze in front of police by radical Islamist mob on charges of bl

    Nigeria: Man stoned to death, set ablaze in front of police by radical Islamist mob on charges of blasphemy. 'On Tuesday (March 30) morning, a water vendor was stoned to death and set ablaze by an Islamist mob in Sade village in the Bauchi State of Nigeria. The incident took place in the...
  3. danieldemol

    Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years prison for blasphemy

    'Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a...
  4. danieldemol

    Nigeria's Kaduna state passes law to castrate child rapists

    Nigeria's Kaduna state passes law to castrate child rapists Read more here: Nigeria's Kaduna passes law to castrate child rapists
  5. danieldemol

    Nigerian singer sentenced to death for blasphemy in Kano state

    'A musician in Nigeria's northern state of Kano has been sentenced to death by hanging for blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad. An upper Sharia court in the Hausawa Filin Hockey area of the state said Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, 22, was guilty of committing blasphemy for a song he circulated via...
  6. danieldemol

    Fears for Nigerian humanist held for blasphemy in sharia state

    ‘A prominent Nigerian humanist accused of blasphemy has been arrested and taken to the northern city of Kano, according to figures close to him. Mubarak Bala, the president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, was taken from his home on 28 April in neighbouring Kaduna state and taken to...
  7. danieldemol

    3,700 Christians killed in Nigeria last year

    “More than 4,300 Christians were killed due to their beliefs worldwide last year, over 3,700 of them in Nigeria, according to the 2019 World Watch List.” Read more here; 'Worst in a decade': Watchdog warns one in three Christians in Asia faces persecution
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