A Kano Upper Shari’a Court on Monday sentenced 22-year-old singer to death by hanging for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad...
A Kano Upper Shari’a Court on Monday sentenced 22-year-old singer to death by hanging for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad.
After the incident, protesters burned down the singer’s family home and led a procession to the Kano Hisbah Command’s headquarters in protest against the singer’s action.The court also sentenced one Umar Farouq of Sharada quarters in Kano metropolis to 10-year imprisonment for making “derogatory statements concerning the Almighty Allah in a public argument.”
The convener of the protest, Idris Ibrahim , said, “Our mission is to alert the government to do the needful; otherwise, we will take the law into our own hands.”
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