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US Urges Nigeria to Release Sufi Musician Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy

The United States has called on the Nigerian Federal Government to release Sufi musician Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, who has been detained since 2020 and sentenced to death over alleged blasphemy. US Assistant Secretary of State Riley Barnes made the appeal during a House Foreign Affairs Africa Subcommittee hearing, urging Nigeria to cease enforcement of blasphemy laws…