A photo of Deborah Emmanuel on her Facebook page. Emmanuel, a Christian student in Nigeria, was killed by an Islamic mob on her college campus on May 12, 2022. / CNAWashington D.C., Dec 20, 2022 / 16:15 pm (CNA).Rhoda Jatau, a Christian and mother of five, was charged with blasphemy in a Nigerian court yesterday for forwarding a video defending a lynched Christian student. During her arraignment on Monday, Jatau was officially charged with blasphemy, inciting a mob, and exciting contempt of religious creed. She is being tried in the northeast Nigerian state of Bauchi s high court. Bauchi practices a form of Sharia law, under which blasphemy is a crime punishable by execution. Jatau, a 45-year-old medical worker, was arrested by Nigerian authorities on May 20 and has been held without the ability to communicate and without a trial for over six months, which is against both Nigerian and international law, according to religious rights advocates. Jatau was arre.
For close to six months, Ya’u Adamu, a low-level civil servant in Nigeria’s northeast has endured the pain of watching his wife being incarcerated by the government of his state – Bauchi. Mrs. Rhoda Ya’u, 45, has been held incommunicado by the Bauchi authorities since May 20 on allegations of blasphemy.
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A Nigerian Sufi musician facing the death penalty for a blasphemy charge has filed an appeal with the country’s Supreme Court, according to a human rights group that says the case has the potential to overturn Sharia-based blasphemy laws in Northern Nigeria.