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Apr
Nigeria Sentences Atheist To 24 Years For Blasphemy Mubarak Bala, in detention for two years, pled guilty to 18 charges of blasphemy. Activists in the country called the sentence, "a sad day for human rights in Nigeria." Mubarak Bala has spent two years in solitary confinement awaiting trial over 'blasphemous' Facebook posts in Nigeria A Nigerian court on Tuesday sentenced Mubarak Bala, an atheist, to 24 years in prison for blasphemy. "This court hereby sentences Muhammad Mubarak Bala to 24 years … This will take into consideration the time he served awaiting trial," said Judge Faruk Lawan in Kano, Nigeria.…