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The appellate division of Kano State High Court on Thursday set aside the 10 years imprisonment passed on 13-year-old Omar Farouq who was convicted for blasphemy by the state’s Upper Sharia Court in August 2020.
The court also quashed the conviction but ordered a retrial of a 22-year-old musician, Yahaya Shariff, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy against Prophet Muhammed by the same Upper Sharia Court about the same period it convicted Farouq.
Their lawyer, Kola Alapinni, who disclosed the developments stated that the court ordered that Shariff be tried afresh by the Upper Sharia Court.
Alapinni according to PremiumTimes said the High Court in its judgment on Thursday ruled that Shariff’s earlier trial was fraught with procedural errors warranting a retrial.