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Publisher:  Reporters without Borders
Date Written:  30/03/2010
Year Published:  2010  
Resource Type:  Article

Reporters Without Borders deplores the ruling by an Islamic court ordering a Nigerian human rights group, the Civil Rights Congress, to close its blog and stop hosting debates on Twitter and Facebook about the use of amputation to punish theft.

Abstract:  Reporters Without Borders deplores yesterday#s ruling by an Islamic court in Kaduna, in the northern state of Zamfara, ordering a Nigerian human rights group, the Civil Rights Congress, to close its blog and stop hosting debates on Twitter and Facebook about the use of amputation to punish theft. The debates were prompted by the 10th anniversary of Nigeria#s first amputation under Sharia law.

#An Islamic court has banned an online debate about the Sharia and human rights for the first time in...
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