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The director of the Auschwitz Memorial Museum has offered to sit with other volunteers at the boy’s prison sentence. Stock Photography.
In a letter addressed to the President of Nigeria, the director of the Polish Museum at Auschwitz offers to serve part of the prison sentence for a 13-year-old boy convicted of blasphemy.
– I cannot be indifferent to this verdict, which is a shame for humanity, writes Piotr Cywinski in his public letter.
The director of the Polish Museum of Auschwitz, Piotr Cywinski, has written to the President of Nigeria asking him to forgive Omar Farouq, a 13-year-old boy who has been sentenced to prison in Nigeria. The boy is charged with blasphemy and was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a sharia court in northern Nigeria’s Kano state in August.
If a pardon is not possible, Cywinski writes that he and 119 other volunteers are prepared to accept the boy’s prison sentence and serve one month each in a Nigerian prison.
In the letter, which was posted on the museum’s Twitter account, Cywinski writes that as the head of a memorial site “where children were imprisoned and murdered, he cannot be indifferent to this verdict, which is a shame to humanity.”
Spokesmen for the Nigerian president declined to comment on the letter on Saturday. The president has also not commented on the verdict, which was condemned by human rights organizations. The UN children’s fund Unicef has said the verdict is “incorrect” and violates international agreements signed by Nigeria.
An adviser to the Kano governor says he saw the letter on social media, but the state government upholds the verdict. The president still has the opportunity to forgive the child.
Nigeria is divided into two roughly equal groups, the Muslim north of the country and the Christian south. Of the 36 states of Nigeria, 12 apply Sharia law.
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