Muhammad Mubarak Bala was held incommunicado in police custody for so long — eight months — that his wife was sure he was dead. “I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t sleep. The emotional torture ...

Kenya hosted the first-ever International Religious Freedom Summit in Africa with delegates from across the globe convening ...

When the megaphone called out for the daily Islamic prayers, the nonbeliever grabbed his prayer beads and ambled through the streets to join others at the mosque in Kano, northern Nigeria’s ...

From detention to incarceration, Mubarak Bala remains a victim of persecution and injustice. His detention for about two years, from April 2020, without charges or trial, was unconscionable ...

Despite four years in prison for blasphemy, Mubarak Bala defends his atheist beliefs but says he keeps a low profile now in the face of threats in his mostly conservative Muslim region of Nigeria ...

Amina Ahmed, the wife of Muhammad Mubarak Bala, an atheist who has been detained since April 2020, is shown at home in Abuja, Nigeria, Nov. 21, 2021. Bala was held incommunicado in police custody for ...

Muhammad Mubarak Bala was held incommunicado in police custody for so long — eight months — that his wife was sure he was dead. “I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t sleep. The emotional torture ...

While the south is relatively safe for nonbelievers, some say threats and attacks have worsened in the north since the leader of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, Mubarak Bala, was arrested and ...