Nigerian Atheist Has Been Sentenced For ‘Blasphemy’
A Nigerian atheist has been sentenced to 24 years in prison by a high court in the northern state of Kano, Nigeria after he was convicted for blaspheming Islam.
Mubarak Bala,is 37-year-old, and the president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria,has pleaded guilty to all 18 charges and asked for leniency and has since been in detention since 2020.He was arrested in 2020 in Kaduna state, and sent to Kano, his home state.
Some Muslims filed a petition to the authorities accusing him of posting blasphemy messages about…