Nigeria
U.S. CALLS ON NIGERIA TO RELEASE YAHAYA SHARIF-AMINU AS BLASPHEMY CASE DRAWS FRESH INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE
The United States has renewed calls for Nigeria to release Sufi musician Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, who has remained imprisoned since 2020 over a blasphemy prosecution in Kano State. Assistant Secretary of State Riley M. Barnes told Congress that Washington is actively pressing Nigerian authorities to free him and stop enforcing blasphemy laws. Sharif-Aminu’s original 2020 death sentence was overturned in 2021, but a retrial was ordered, and his Supreme Court challenge remains unresolved more than six years after his arrest. House Documents
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