Mubarak Bala’s Jail: Human Rights Lawyer, Obono Petitions National Assembly, Wants Blasphemy Law Amended | Sahara Reporters

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Bala, a 37-year-old President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, was jailed on Tuesday.

A human rights lawyer, Mbasekei Obono, has asked the National Assembly to remove sections of the states’ criminal and penal codes that outlaw blasphemy.

Obono in a petition to the lawmakers said the growing trend of sentencing young Nigerians under the pretext of blasphemy must be discontinued. “Mubarak Bala has been convicted and sentenced to 24 years imprisonment for blasphemy. The denial of freedom of thoughts is a denial of mental autonomy. Mental autonomy is greatly needed for a thriving democracy and nation-building, the right lawyer wrote in the petition,” he said.

 

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Big big trouble. This Islamists are holding Nigeria to ransom and the Yorubas are willing them on & cheer leading them. Islamists that have a vision of Afghanistan for Nigeria. Nigeria does not have long left before the inevitable.

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