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叠10鈥�0101/2025

Motion for a European 合法博彩网站 resolution on Continuing detention and risk of the death penalty for individuals in Nigeria charged with blasphemy, notably the case of Yahaya Sharif-Aminu

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鈥�听 having regard to its previous resolutions on Nigeria,

鈥�听 having regard to Rules 150(5) of its Rules of Procedure,

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1. whereas Yahaya Sharif-Aminu is a Nigerian singer who was sentenced to death by hanging in 2020 by an Islamic court in Kano State, Nigeria, for allegedly committing blasphemy; whereas his case is currently听on appeal听at the Supreme Court of Nigeria;
2. whereas blasphemy-related allegations results in state-sanctioned prosecutions and in some cases in violent mobs, harassment or even extrajudicial killings in Nigeria ; whereas in 2022 for instance, Deborah Samuel, was lynched and burned to death by a mob ; whereas no one was prosecuted for her murder;
3. whereas blasphemy laws are in violation of its international human rights commitments, the African Charter and the Nigerian Constitution;
4. whereas blasphemy laws create a climate of terror and coercion;
5. whereas Section 39 of the 1999 secular Constitution guarantees the right to freedom of expression, thought, and conscience; whereas however the country鈥檚 criminal law categorizes insults to religion as an offense ; whereas additionally Shari鈥檃 or Islamic law, which is听applicable in 12 northern states, criminalizes blasphemy, with punishments including the death penalty ;

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1. Urges the Nigerian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Yahaya Sharif-Aminu and drop the appeal against the court of appeal鈥檚 quashing of his conviction;
2. Strongly recommends听to听establish an immediate moratorium on the death penalty as a step towards its full abolition and commute all sentences until then;
3. Invites national authorities to end impunity and ensure prompt investigation and prosecution of perpetrators of mob killings related to blasphemy;
4. Calls on the Nigerian authorities to swiftly repeal the blasphemy laws, as they are inconsistent with the national constitution and international human rights obligations which both guarantees religious freedom and freedom of expression;
5. Stresses legal systems based on religious prescriptions are incompatible with the freedom of conscience; further stresses that secularism, the emancipation of all religious control over society and the State, is the only value that guarantees all, whether believers, agnostics or atheists, equal freedom of conscience and public expression of convictions, subject only to democratic public order and respect for the freedom and rights of others;
6. Stresses that freedom of conscience, religion and belief includes the freedom to believe or not to believe, to practice or not to practice the religion of one's choice, and to abandon or change one's religion; calls on the Nigerian authorities to strengthen these rights ;
7. Recalls that in some Member States blasphemy and similar offences still exist and are still enforced; urges Member States to swiftly repeal all blasphemy, 鈥渞eligious insult鈥� and similar laws;
8. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Nigerian authorities, the African Union, the EU institutions, the Member States and the United Nations Secretary-General.

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