Tag: BLASPHEMY
Blasphemy: Court orders IGP to release man detained since February
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the police and its inspector-general Mohammed Adamu to release Mbarak Bala who was arrested in Kaduna...
Blasphemy: Court reserves judgement in Kano singer’s case
A State High Court in Kano has reserved judgement in an appeal filed by singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu over a death sentence handed to him...
Blasphemy: UN experts call for release of Kano singer sentenced to...
The United Nations human rights experts have called on Nigerian authorities to release singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu who was sentenced to death for blaspheming Prophet...
Polish historian offers to be jailed in place of Kano teenager...
A polish historian Piotr Cywinski has offered to stand in the place of a teenager Umar Farouq who was sentenced by a Kano court...
Kano court sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years imprisonment for blasphemy
A Sharia court in Kano has sentenced a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blaspheming Prophet Muhammad.
Umar Farouq was convicted after being...
Falana drags Nigeria to African rights commission over Kano singer’s death...
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has petitioned the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in The Gambia over the death sentence handed to...
Blasphemy: Ebenezer Obey, Audu Maikori, others plead with Ganduje over Kano...
A group known as the Nigerian Music Industry Collective has appealed to Kano State Governor Abdulahi Ganduje not to sign the death warrant against...
Blasphemy: Kano singer appeals death sentence
Kano-based singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu has filed an appeal against the death sentence handed to him by a Shari’a Court for blaspheming Prophet Muhammad.
Mr Sharif-Aminu,...
Blasphemy: Falana finally gets case details of Kano singer
Kano State Judiciary says it has handed over certified copies of the Sharia Court judgment to rights lawyer Femi Falana to enable him appeal...
Blasphemy: Court officials delay Yahaya Sharif-Aminu’s appeal
Attempts on Tuesday by singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to appeal the death sentence given to him was stalled again on Tuesday as officials of the...