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  • a teenager was facing 10 years in prison.

  • Another man sentenced to death until a Nigerian court set aside their blasphemy convictions on Thursday in cases that caused international outcry.

  • Omar Farouk was accused of making blasphemous comments during an argument, while Yahya Jammeh new Sharif was accused of having shared a blasphemous message on WhatsApp.

  • Judges at the secular branch of the state's high court ruled that Farook should be acquitted because he was a miner who had not had adequate legal representation.

  • They said he was 17 years old at the time of sentencing on not 13.

  • As previously stated, Sharif's conviction was quashed on the case was sent back to the Sharia court.

  • A lawyer defending the pair said their lives would never be the same.

  • The case caused international outcry with 120 volunteers, including the head of Poland's Auschwitz memorial, offering Thio each serve a month of Farook's sentence.

  • Nigeria is roughly split between a predominantly Muslim north and a mainly Christian south.

  • The convictions have sparked a debate about Sharia Islamic religious law, with the defendant's lawyers arguing it is incompatible with Nigeria's secular constitution.

a teenager was facing 10 years in prison.

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