Teen 'joyful' after 10 year jail sentence for blasphemy quashed

Omar Farouq had an argument last year with a colleague that would change his life.
Insults were exchanged in the heat of the moment, he admits, but Mr Farouq, a teenager, thought nothing of the exchange until he was summoned to the police station and charged with blasphemy against God.
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Omar Farouq had an argument last year with a colleague that would change his life.(CNN)
When word got out about the nature of his arrest, an angry mob descended on Mr Farouq's family home forcing his mother to flee to a neighbouring village, his lawyer said.
Mr Farouq, who was then 16, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labour by a Sharia court, in Kano, northern Nigeria.

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