The director of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum Piotr Cywinski has asked Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to pardon a 13-year-old boy Omar Farouq sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for blasphemy.
Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. “However, if it turns out that the words of this child absolutely require 120 months of imprisonment, and even you are not able to change that, I suggest that in place of the child, 120 adult volunteers from all over the world, gathered by us—myself personally among them— should each serve a month in a Nigerian prison,” wrote the director.
Alapinni said he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State.
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