The head of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is among scores of volunteers who have offered to serve time in a Nigerian prison on behalf of a teenage boy jailed for ten years with hard labour for blasphemy.
The fate of Omar Farouq, 13, is the latest case from the Sharia courts sitting in Nigeria’s Muslim north to attract international denunciation.
Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, 22, a singer, was recently condemned to death by hanging, also for blasphemy and by the same court in Kano State, after sharing a composition via phone message that triggered mass outrage in the highly conservative region.
In another case the humanist Mubarak Bala has not been seen since April when he was arrested and taken to Kano to face traditional
Source: www.thetimes.co.uk
