Nigeria: Sharia Court Sentences Atheist to 24 Years in Prison for Insulting Muhammad – By Gabrielle Reyes (Breitbart) / April 7, 2022
A court in northern Nigeria’s Kano state, which enforces Islamic law (sharia) alongside common law, sentenced an atheist man to 24 years in prison on Tuesday on the charge of “blasphemy” for a Facebook statement he posted in April 2020 deemed offensive to Islam, Nigeria’s Premium Times online newspaper reported.
The defendant served as the President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria.
“Kano State High Court on Tuesday sentenced an atheist, Mubarak Bala, to 24 years imprisonment after he reportedly pleaded guilty to an 18-count charge of blasphemy levelled against him by the Kano State government [sic],” the Premium Times reported on April 5.
