An international human rights lawyer, Kola Alapinni has been conferred with the 2023 United States Secretary of State’s International Religious Freedom Awards. Alapinni - a Nigerian - was recognised alongside other defenders of religious freedom across the globe for providing legal defence in multiple freedom of religion or belief cases and for challenging the constitutionality of Nigerian blasphemy laws. He is the leading defence counsel in two prominent blasphemy cases in Kano, Northern Nigeria.
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A defendant, Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara, who is standing trial for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has accused his counsel, Barrister Dalhatu Shehu, of collecting a N2 million bribe to secure his bail. At the resumed hearing before a Kano Shari’a high court sitting at Kofar Kudu in Kano, Abduljabbar said, “Sometime, Dalhatu met me that the judge told him that if not of two people, he would have released me – my relative, Kabiru and chief judge.
The Legal Aid Council of Nigeria has said Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara is not eligible to get pro bono legal service following the withdrawal of his counsel, Ambali Muhammad (SAN), from an ongoing blasphemy case. A Kano Shari’a court sitting at Kofar Kudu had ordered the council to provide legal representation for Sheikh Abduljabbar. FG […]