Free Mubarak Bala

I live in country where blasphemy is not a crime. The offence of blasphemous libel had not been prosecuted in New Zealand since 1922 but the law was only repealed surprisingly recently, in 2019. Freedom of belief is a precious and rare thing in our world. This short BBC documentary highlights the price Mubarak Bala and his family have paid for stating he was an atheist on social media. His guilty plea was against legal advice and possibly not a free choice itself. I heard Leo Igwe, Nigerian Human Rights Advocate featured in the documentary, speak at the Humanist International... Read more →