Teenager Omar Farouq who was acquitted after being sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Sharia Court in Kano for blasphemy has left Nigeria.
Farouq was facing further threats to his life from some extremists in Kano, Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum said on its website.
Farouq become in 2020 exceeded the sentence after being accused of using foul language taken into consideration to be blasphemous towards Allah in a talk with his pal even as he was thirteen years antique.
The youngster became cleared of the costs in January after Lagos-primarily based rights legal professional Kola Alapini appealed the judgement.
Director of the museum Piotr Cywinski had additionally appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to pardon Farouq.
However, announcing Farouq’s relocation, Cywinski stated,
“In order to avoid a likely attack, Omar had to right now relocate following his release”.
Cywinski said the polish established order plans to assist Farouq “to build a brand new lifestyles. Depending on the amount raised, we plan to provide him with a brand new home in a safe environment out of doors the Kano nation in which he turned into accused and attempted, pay for his education, and additionally compensate part of the charges incurred via the attorneys helping him in Nigeria.”
He introduced that because of felony policies of museums’ operations in Poland, the fundraising effort and all associated communications might be driven through the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, of which the museum director is also president.
He did now not expose Farouq’s new location.
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