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Nigeria\u2019s blasphemy laws have no place in modern society<\/em>.<\/p>\n The recent release<\/a> from prison of prominent Nigerian atheist, Mubarak Bala, is a victory for reason, decency, and common sense. Mr. Bala secured his freedom courtesy of an appeals court judge who, back in May last year, reduced his original High Court of Kano State twenty-four-year sentence to five years. His ordeal started in 2020 after he posted comments adjudged to have been \u201cderogatory\u201d of Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic religion…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nigeria\u2019s blasphemy laws have no place in modern society. The recent release from prison of prominent Nigerian atheist, Mubarak Bala, is a victory for reason, decency, and common sense. Mr. Bala secured his freedom courtesy of an appeals court judge who, back in May last year, reduced his original High Court of Kano State twenty-four-year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,42655,10831,257,4687,393,50448,254],"class_list":["post-189323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-legislation","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-obnoxious","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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