#FreeMubarakBala – TheHumanist.com
Mubarak Bala Please take just a moment to send words of support to Mubarak Bala, a humanist imprisoned in Nigeria for “blasphemous” social media posts. In 2022, the Kano State High Court in Nigeria sentenced Mubarak Bala, President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria and “outspoken advocate for Nigerian atheist rights and freedoms,” to twenty-four years in prison. The court convicted him of eighteen counts of causing public disturbance in connection with Facebook posts he is alleged to have made in April 2020 that were said to have insulted the Prophet Muhammad. Mubarak Bala has undergone years of repression and hardship for his humanist beliefs, and today he remains imprisoned. Currently, a Nigerian Court of Appeals panel is set to review arguments and make a judgment in May. You can read the full details of his case here. Unfortunately, Bala’s current imprisonment is not the first time he has experienced grave injustice for his personal secular beliefs: Humanists International reports that in 2014, Bala “was held against his will for 18 days in a psychiatric …