Auschwitz Memorial director offers to share Nigerian boy’s blasphemy jail term
By DW
28 September 2020 |
7:00 am
Nigerian boy Omar Farouq has been sentenced to 10 years for blasphemy by a Sharia court. Now the head of the Auschwitz Memorial is offering to serve part of the sentence, slamming it as "disgraceful" for humanity.
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