Nigeria sentences teenage boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy, prompting outrage

Nigeria sentences teenage boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy, prompting outrage
CNN
1/30/2021
By Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney, CNN
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CNN's Stephanie Busari speaks with Omar Farouq, the Nigerian teen who was freed after his 10-year prison sentence for blasphemy was overturned. Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend.
Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a teenager to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria.
Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend.

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