ECOWAS Court orders Nigeria to amend or repeal blasphemy laws

The court declared Section 382(b) of the Kano State Sharia Penal Code Law (2000), which imposes the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad, as “excessive and disproportionate” in a democratic society.

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