Nigeria Faces UN Pressure To Quash Kano Singer’s Death Penalty
September 28, 2020
2:36 pm
A group of United Nations human rights experts has urged Nigerian authorities to quash the death sentence given a singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu by Kano Sharia court for alleged blasphemy.
The experts also urged government to release him, the Voice of America has reported.
Sharif-Aminu is a gospel musician and a member of the Sufi Tijaniyya order.
The 22-year-old singer was convicted and sentenced to death by a Sharia court in August for performing a song through the WhatsApp online messaging platform that ‘praised an imam from the Tijaniya …
