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The United Nations Condemns The Arrest Of A 13-year-old Boy In Kano

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed “deep concern” over the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy for blasphemy.

In August, an Islamic Sharia court in Kano State sentenced Omar Farouq to 10 years in prison.

The ruling is “incorrect.

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The ruling violates the 1991 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by Nigeria, according to a Unicef ​​statement.

Unicef ​​has called on the federal government to expedite the review of the case.

Farouq was convicted and sentenced by Aliyu Kanu, the same judge, who sentenced a musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed.

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Since the return to democracy in 1999, several states have adopted Islamic law in northern Nigeria.