Nigeria: début du nouveau procès du chanteur accusé de blasphème et déjà condamné à mort
The retrial of Nigerian Muslim singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, accused of blasphemy, opened Thursday in the capital Abuja, with his lawyers hoping to have it overturned.
Nigeria's Supreme Court held its first hearing on Thursday in the high-profile five-year-old blasphemy case.
Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a Sufi Muslim musician, was sentenced to death by a Sharia court in Kano State in 2020 for sharing song lyrics deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad.
The Kano State High Court later overturned the conviction but also ordered a retrial, an outcome his lawyers are trying to prevent while calling for a broader ruling on penalties for violations of Sharia law, including the death penalty for blasphemy and adultery.
"All aspects of the Sharia penal code that violate Nigeria's constitution and international obligations cannot be included in our codes," lawyer Kola Alapinni told reporters after the court granted his team additional time to file its appeal.
Although Nigeria's federal government is secular, Sharia law coexists with common law in 12 predominantly Muslim northern states.
Harsh sentences for violations of Islamic law are rarely imposed and almost never carried out. Death sentences for adultery and blasphemy are usually either overturned or suspended pending appeal.
However, in the socially conservative north of the country, mobs have been known to engage in acts of mob justice in cases of alleged blasphemy.
After the song was released on social media in early 2020, thousands of people took to the streets of Kano to demand Yahaya Sharif-Aminu's arrest. The crowd even burned down his family home.
As the case reached Nigeria's highest court, civil and religious liberties advocates from the United States, the European Union and the United Nations expressed support for Mr. Sharif-Aminu.
In April, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice ruled that Kano's death sentence for blasphemy was "excessive and disproportionate."
Nigeria has not implemented this decision.
Sharif-Aminu, who was absent from the hearing on Thursday, remains in custody while his appeal continues.
Commentaires (3)
La religion est source de divisions et de conflits
Dieu est AMOUR
Aimez vous les uns les autres et le monde se portera mieux
Dieu n'a parlé avec aucun de vos prophètes
Et j'imagine, qu'il t'a parlé à toi !
Touche pas a mon prophète !! Si tu veux la paix !!! C facile, du respect dans tout les sens... inchallah
senegal da ngay saga YALLA ou Son prophete saw (pas de problem), niou saga sap serigne par retaliation niou emprisonner la. pays d'hypocites et pleins d'associateurs.
\soufisme bakhoul adouna, bakhoul alakhira!!!
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