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| Yemisi Adegoke | |
| BBC News, Lagos | |
| Mubarak Bala, a Nigerian atheist who was sentenced to 24 years in prison for blasphemy related charges in 2022, has had his sentence reduced to five years | |
| on appeal. | |
| According | |
| to Bala's lawyer, James Ibori, a panel of three judges in Kano state ruled that the original sentence was "excessive" and "against the | |
| provisions of the law". | |
| It is | |
| unclear when Bala, who has been in prison for four years, is likely to be | |
| released. | |
| His case sparked international outrage when he was arrested in 2020. | |
| A group of Muslims had filed a petition to the authorities accusing Bala of posting uncomplimentary messages about Islam on social media. | |
| He later pleaded guilty | |
| to all 18 charges and was sentenced to 24 years in prison by a high court in the Muslim majority northern state of Kano. | |
| There have been widespread | |
| calls for Bala's release and his detention has incited fears about freedom of | |
| speech in Nigeria. | |
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| The case of Nigerian | |
| atheist Mubarak Bala convicted of blasphemy | |
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