Alleged Blasphemy: UN experts demand release of Nigerian atheist from one-year detention
The UN human rights experts say Mr Bala’s prolonged detention is a “flagrant violation of fundamental rights” and has “a chilling effect on the exercise of fundamental freedoms in Nigeria”.
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Seven United Nation (UN) human rights experts on Thursday demanded the release of a Nigerian atheist and humanist, Mubarak Bala, who has been detained without charge by the police for a year over alleged blasphemy.
The experts’ demand add to calls by many human rights groups, including Amnesty International, in the last one year for the release of the activist who faces death penalty if convicted under the law being operated in many parts of Northern Nigeria.