{"id":30080,"date":"2020-11-27T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T11:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30080"},"modified":"2020-11-27T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T11:15:54","slug":"kano-chief-judge-reserves-judgment-in-blasphemy-case-involving-musician-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30080","title":{"rendered":"Kano Chief Judge reserves judgment in blasphemy case involving musician, minor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kano State Chief Judge, Nuraddeen Sagir, on Thursday, reserved judgment on an appeal filed by a 30-year-old musician, Sharrif Yahaya, sentenced to death for blasphemy by a Shariah Court in the state.<br \/><br \/>The judgment day is to be communicated to the counsels.<br \/><br \/>The Kano High Court (Appeal Division) equally reserved judgment on the appeals filed by a minor (a 10-year-old boy), and 17-year-old Umar Farouq, who were sent to jail for blasphemy.<br \/><br \/>They had dragged the Kano State Government and iAttorney General before the Kano State High Court challenging their conviction on blasphemy charges by the Sharia Court in the state.<br \/><br \/>Kola Alanipinni, the lawyer to the convicts, and counsel for the state, Aisha Mahmud, adopted their briefs.<br \/><br \/>The convicts counsel wanted the judgment of the Sharia Court declared unconstitutional, null, and void and quash it because the sentences was a violation of their constitutional rights to freedom of expression and religion.<br \/><br \/>Aisha Mahmud argued otherwise, and insisted the sentences affirmed.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kano State Chief Judge, Nuraddeen Sagir, on Thursday, reserved judgment on an appeal filed by a 30-year-old musician, Sharrif Yahaya, sentenced to death for blasphemy by a Shariah Court in the state. The judgment day is to be communicated to the counsels. The Kano High Court (Appeal Division) equally reserved judgment on the appeals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2618,1271,2619],"class_list":["post-30080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-blasphemy","tag-minor","tag-musician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}