Opinion: A 13-year-old Nigerian boy was sentenced by a Sharia court to 10 years in prison after reportedly using blasphemous language about Allah. A Holocaust historian says more than 120 adults volunteered to each serve a month of his sentence instead.
Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, has offered to serve part of the 10-year sentence of a teenage boy in Nigeria, who was allegedly punished for blasphemy.Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, has offered to serve part of the 10-year sentence of a teenage boy in Nigeria, who was allegedly punished for blasphemy.
the punishment goes against the Nigerian constitution and the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child.in Poland, a living memorial to the lives of the 1.1 million people murdered at Auschwitz — most for their religion. When he heard a young boy was in prison for a supposed blasphemy, he recalled that Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari had visited Auschwitz in 2018 and seemed moved.
"However," he said,"if 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 — myself personally among them — should each serve a month in a Nigerian prison."
Piotr Cywinski doesn't threaten or scold President Buhari in his note. He tells him how"only you" can release Omar Farouq. He is not trying to score rhetorical points on a media platform. He wants to get a 13-year-old boy out of prison.
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