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Hear from Nigerian teen freed after overturned blasphemy sentence

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Hear from Nigerian teen freed after overturned blasphemy sentence

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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