Nigeria: Court orders prison to produce Sheikh Abduljabar for appeal — Africa Links 24

The Court of Appeal sitting in Kano has on Monday issued an order to the Nigerian Correctional Service to produce Sheikh Abduljabar Kabara before the court to prosecute his appeal.

The Islamic scholar is detained in custody following a judgment by a lower court, Upper Shari’a Court which sentenced him to death by hanging for alleged blasphemy.

When the matter came up for hearing on Monday, the Presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Lawal-Shuaibu, ordered that in view that the appellant filed…