A 22-year-old Musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death by an Upper Sharia Court in Kano State on August 10, 2020, has been denied access to lawyers even as the 30-day deadline given to him to appeal the judgment lapses on September 9, Saturday Punch reports.
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Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, on Thursday, expressed his readiness to sign the death sentence judgment on an alleged blasphemy by a 22-year-old Aminu Yahaya Sharif by a Judge of Kano Upper Shari’ah Court.
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Amnesty International on Thursday called on the authorities in Nigeria’s Kano state to overturn the death sentence imposed on a singer for alleged blasphemy of Prophet Mohammed. An Upper Islamic Sharia court in the northern city of Kano on Monday ordered 22-year-old Yahaya Aminu Sharif to die by hanging for derogatory expressions against the Prophet in one of his songs. …
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