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News & Politics | Life January 25, 2021 Auschwitz museum head Piotr Cywiński stepped in after Omar Farouq Bashir was sentenced by a Sharia court in North Kano State in August last year for allegedly ‘blaspheming against Allah’. PAP/faceofmalawi.com/Twitter A 13-year-old boy jailed for 10 years in Nigeria for blasphemy has been released following the intervention of Auschwitz Museum director Piotr Cywiński and 119 volunteers. Posting on Twitter, Cywiński said: "Great news from...

Views: Visits 130 The appellate division of Kano State High Court on Thursday set aside the 10 years imprisonment passed on 13-year-old Omar Farouq who was convicted for blasphemy by the state’s Upper Sharia Court in August 2020. The court also quashed the conviction but ordered a retrial of a 22-year-old musician, Yahaya Shariff, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy against Prophet Muhammed by the same Upper Sharia Court about the same period it convicted Farouq. Their lawyer, Kola Alapinni, who disclosed the developments stated that the court ordered that Shariff be tried afr...

The court set aside the 10 years imprisonment passed on Farouq and declared the entire Upper Sharia Court’s judgment a nullity.