Rep. Raskin Announces Sponsorship of Nigerian Prisoner of Conscience Mubarak Bala
May 17, 2023
May 17, 2023
WASHINGTON, May 17 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on May 16, 2023:
Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) today announced his sponsorship of Nigerian political prisoner Mubarak Bala through the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission's (Lantos Commission) Defending Freedoms Project. Bala, President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria and a self-identified atheist, has been imprisoned in Nigeria since April 28, 2020, when he was arrested over a Faceb . . .
Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) today announced his sponsorship of Nigerian political prisoner Mubarak Bala through the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission's (Lantos Commission) Defending Freedoms Project. Bala, President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria and a self-identified atheist, has been imprisoned in Nigeria since April 28, 2020, when he was arrested over a Faceb . . .