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Category: Opinion

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 October 31, 2024November 3, 2024

Bid to extend Shariah Law

On Thursday, 24th October 2024, the House of Representatives rejected a bill seeking to amend the Federal Constitution by expanding the scope for Sharia Law. The 1999 (Amended) Constitution permits States to enact Shariah provisions, but this right is explicitly …

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Posted on May 16, 2024November 2, 2024

UN Support for Yahaya Sharif-Aminu

Today, United Nations experts urged Nigerian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Yahaya Sharif-Aminu. On August 10, 2020, an Upper Shariah Court in Kano State, Nigeria, sentenced 22, year-old Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, to death by hanging on charges of blasphemy. Sharif-Aminu …

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Posted on September 22, 2022November 2, 2024

Appeal Court Judge’s home raided by armed EFCC agents

Yesterday, armed officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) invaded the Kano residence of Justice Ita Mbaba, Presiding Judge of the Kano Court of Appeal. The alarming, unexpected raid took place at 5:00 am in the hours of …

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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 November 4, 2020November 2, 2024

Freedom of expression

Freedom of expression is a fundamental right that is a sign of a healthy society that promotes tolerance and diversity.

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