Nigeria’s Supreme Court held its first hearing in a high-profile blasphemy case today that defence lawyers hope will lead to a ruling that puts curbs on sharia law. Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a Sufi Muslim musician, was sentenced to death by a sharia court in Nigeria’s northern Kano State in 2020 for sharing song lyrics deemed to […]
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