Raskin Leads Letter to Nigeria's New President Urging Release of Political Prisoner Mubarak Bala
June 10, 2023
June 10, 2023
WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release and letter on June 9, 2023:
Today, Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and six of his colleagues wrote to Nigeria's newly elected president, Bola Tinubu, urging him to pardon Mubarak Bala, a prisoner of conscience sentenced to 24 years in prison for posting messages on social media critical of Islam. Bala, the President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria and a self-identified atheist, has b . . .
Today, Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and six of his colleagues wrote to Nigeria's newly elected president, Bola Tinubu, urging him to pardon Mubarak Bala, a prisoner of conscience sentenced to 24 years in prison for posting messages on social media critical of Islam. Bala, the President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria and a self-identified atheist, has b . . .