{"id":2480,"date":"2022-04-20T20:39:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2022-04-20T20:39:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:39:32","slug":"24-year-blasphemy-sentence-protest-thursday-28-april-4-6-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=2480","title":{"rendered":"24 year &#8216;blasphemy&#8217; sentence protest. Thursday 28 April 4 &#8211; 6 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mubarak Bala, President of the Nigerian Humanist Association, was jailed for 24 years on 5 April simply for expressing non-religious views on Facebook. Our group is supporting a protest organised by Humanists UK at the Nigerian High Commission, near to Trafalgar Square. Join us to urge the Nigerian Government to overturn this vicious sentence and repeal all blasphemy laws. For further details see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QdESVh0ief\"><a href=\"https:\/\/humanists.uk\/2022\/04\/13\/nigerian-high-commission-protest-to-free-mubarak-bala\/\">Nigerian High Commission protest to free Mubarak Bala<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Nigerian High Commission protest to free Mubarak Bala&#8221; &#8212; Humanists UK\" src=\"https:\/\/humanists.uk\/2022\/04\/13\/nigerian-high-commission-protest-to-free-mubarak-bala\/embed\/#?secret=YyPx2GAmFz#?secret=QdESVh0ief\" data-secret=\"QdESVh0ief\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/merlin_175954320_d9781c66-b089-47cf-aa21-b5beea8ca556-jumbo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/merlin_175954320_d9781c66-b089-47cf-aa21-b5beea8ca556-jumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2481\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/merlin_175954320_d9781c66-b089-47cf-aa21-b5beea8ca556-jumbo.jpg 720w, http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/merlin_175954320_d9781c66-b089-47cf-aa21-b5beea8ca556-jumbo-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mubarak Bala. President Nigerian Humanist Association<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-humanists-uk wp-block-embed-humanists-uk\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QdESVh0ief\"><a href=\"https:\/\/humanists.uk\/2022\/04\/13\/nigerian-high-commission-protest-to-free-mubarak-bala\/\">Nigerian High Commission protest to free Mubarak Bala<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Nigerian High Commission protest to free Mubarak Bala&#8221; &#8212; Humanists UK\" src=\"https:\/\/humanists.uk\/2022\/04\/13\/nigerian-high-commission-protest-to-free-mubarak-bala\/embed\/#?secret=YyPx2GAmFz#?secret=QdESVh0ief\" data-secret=\"QdESVh0ief\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mubarak Bala, President of the Nigerian Humanist Association, was jailed for 24 years on 5 April simply for expressing non-religious views on Facebook. Our group is supporting a protest organised by Humanists UK at the Nigerian High Commission, near to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=2480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9c4oP-E0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}