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Category: Blasphemy

Posted on December 2, 2024January 9, 2025

UN Working Group Confirms FRF’s Stand

Yahaya Sharif-Aminu’s Detention Violates Human Rights.The Foundation for Religious Freedom (FRF) welcomes the recent publication of Opinion No. 32/2024 by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. This landmark decision sheds light on the injustice suffered by Yahaya Sharif-Aminu …

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Posted on November 13, 2024November 13, 2024

Much Ado About The Sharia Law

It is alarming that whilst Mr. Yahaya Sharif-Aminu has been languishing in jail for over four years trying to prove his innocence and also to challenge the constitutionality of the Sharia law as it is currently being practised in Kano …

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Posted on August 17, 2022November 2, 2024

Kano Appeal Court orders Yahaya to be retried for blasphemy

On 10 August 2020, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death by hanging by the Kano Upper Shariah Court sitting at Hausawa Filin Hockey.FRF appealed the conviction because:1. Gross procedural errors in the trial (including failure to …

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Posted on April 28, 2022November 2, 2024

Mubarak Bala: Two Years in Prison Today

Mubarak Bala arrested two years ago today. Here is the story.

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Posted on April 6, 2022November 2, 2024

Mubarak Was Not Charged with Blasphemy

Mubarak Bala is widely reported as being found guilty of blasphemy. He was not. Full details here.

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Posted on April 5, 2022November 2, 2024

Mubarak Bala Sentenced to 24 Years

Some days come and go leaving a fading shadow in our minds. Other days, hit us like a jackhammer and leave a deep impression that never fades. April 5, 2022, was one such day. After just shy of two years …

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Posted on December 1, 2021November 2, 2024

Yahaya Sharif-Aminu’s 2nd Blasphemy Appeal in Court Today

Today, FRF lawyers appeared at the Federal Court of Appeal, Kano Division, Nigeria acting on behalf of Yahaya Sharif-Aminu. A Kano Shariah Court sentenced Yahaya to death on August 10, 2020, on charges of blasphemy. Our lawyers successfully appealed that decision …

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Posted on October 6, 2021November 2, 2024

Blasphemy laws

Blasphemy laws are an anachronism that violate fundamental human rights, encourage intolerance and promote violence. They have no place in modern society.

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Posted on September 27, 2021November 2, 2024

Mubarak Bala: Direct appeal to President Buhari

In an open-letter, we asked President Buhari to intervene in the case of Mubarak Bala who has been detained for 517 days without charge.

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Posted on April 28, 2021November 2, 2024

Mubarak Bala illegally imprisoned

One year ago today Mubarak Bala was arrested in Northern Nigeria because of a Facebook post. He has been detained without charges and without trial.

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