{"id":262966,"date":"2020-09-26T17:44:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=262966"},"modified":"2020-09-26T17:45:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T16:45:39","slug":"foreign-activist-writes-president-buhari-offers-to-serve-sentence-for-13-year-old-boy-imprisoned-for-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=262966","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Activist Writes President Buhari, Offers To Serve Sentence For 13-year-old Boy Imprisoned For Blasphemy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Piotr Cywinski, Director of Auschwitz Memorial Museum, Poland, has offered to serve part of the 10-year jail sentence given to a 13-year-old Nigerian boy, Umar Farouq, for blasphemy.
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A Sharia court in Kano had convicted Farouq for using disparaging language on Allah during a disagreement with his friend.
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In a letter dated September 25 and addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari, Cywinski sought pardon for Farouq.
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\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>The activist said regardless of what Farooq said, he cannot be treated as fully aware and responsible given his age.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cI permit myself to write to you personally about a young boy named Omar Farouq, who was convicted recently in a Sharia court in Kano State in North-West Nigeria after being accused of blasphemy used during an argument with a friend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish to request the pardon of this 13 year old boy. Regardless of what he said, he cannot be treated as fully aware and responsible, given his age.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it turns out that the words of this child absolutely require 120 months of imprisonment, and even you are not able to change that, I suggest that in place of the child, 120 adult volunteers from all over the world, gathered by us myself personally among them should each serve a month in a Nigerian prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn total, the price for the child\u2019s transgression will be the same, and we will all avoid the worst.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you agree to grant clemency, or to the above proposal in lieu of punishment, I will make an attempt to provide financial help for the boy\u2019s proper education. This way, instead of a destroyed young man, Nigeria will gain an aware and educated young citizen.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will undoubtedly agree with the statement that human rights begin with the rights of the child. I kindly ask you to consider my proposal favorably.\u201d
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Piotr Cywinski, Director of Auschwitz Memorial Museum, Poland, has offered to serve part of the 10-year jail sentence given to a 13-year-old Nigerian boy, Umar Farouq, for blasphemy. A Sharia court in Kano had convicted Farouq for using disparaging language on Allah during a disagreement with his friend. In a letter dated September 25 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[15684,7055,49,12151,10108],"class_list":["post-262966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-activist","tag-blasphemy","tag-kano","tag-poland","tag-sharia-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/262967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}