Mubarak Bala, head of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, was seized by the police and has disappeared in custody. Other Nigerian nonbelievers fear more detentions are coming. By Ruth Maclean ...

Nigerian atheist Mubarak Bala, who was forcibly hospitalized, is still at risk—and the intersection of political religion and colonial-era laws is to blame.

Bala, a 37-year-old President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, was jailed on Tuesday. ... “Mubarak Bala has been convicted and sentenced to 24 years imprisonment for blasphemy.

Mubarak Bala, 40, was convicted in a court in the northern city of Kano after, in a surprise move, he pleaded guilty to 18 ...

Mubarak Bala, the 37-year-old president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, pleaded guilty to all 18 charges and asked for leniency. He has been in detention since 2020.

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Calls for the release of Mubarak Bala, a Nigerian atheist and humanist leader jailed for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad on Facebook, have mounted as the anniversary ...

Mubarak Bala, found himself at the center of a firestorm that tested the boundaries of free speech in Nigeria, has finally regained freedom. Bala is a prominent Nigerian atheist and former ...

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 ...