"I pray Allah will bless me to become Governor or President to reform the Sharia," says teenager freed after blasphemy sentence quashed in Nigeria
Omar Farouq, who was then 16, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Sharia court, in Kano, northern Nigeria. However, his conviction was overturned on appeal by the Kano State High Court on January 22, because Farouq did not have legal representation at his first trial, his counsel Kola Alapinni said...