Nigeria: UN Experts Urge Nigeria to Release Musician Sentenced to Death

29 September 2020

The United Nations human rights experts have called on Nigerian authorities to immediately release a 22-year-old singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, sentenced to death over an allegedly blasphemous song shared on social media.

The experts made the call yesterday in a joint statement titled 'UN rights experts urge Nigeria to overturn death sentence for singer who shared song on WhatsApp'.

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