Court frees 13-year-old Kano musician sentenced to death

A Kano State High Court on Thursday set aside the 10- year imprisonment passed on13-year-old Omar Farouq, who was convicted for blasphemy by an Upper Sharia Court in August 2020.

It reversed the conviction but ordered a retrial of a 22-year-old musician, Yahaya Shariff, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy by the same Upper Sharia Court about the same period it convicted Farouq.

The court set aside the sentence passed on the boy and declared the entire Upper Sharia Court’s judgment a nullity.

He said he might appeal against that aspect of the judgment.

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