Hear from Nigerian teen freed after overturned blasphemy sentence
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Hear from Nigerian teen freed after overturned blasphemy sentence
CNN’s Stephanie Busari speaks with Omar Farouq, the Nigerian teen who was freed after his 10-year prison sentence for blasphemy was overturned.
Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend.
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