Auschwitz director offers to serve time in place of 13-year-old Nigerian sentenced to 10 years for blasphemy

Piotr Cywinski poses in front of barracks in Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp – WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP/Getty Images

Article by Will Brown

The director of the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland has offered to serve time for a Nigerian child who was convicted of blasphemy and ordered to spend ten years in prison by a Sharia court .

In an open letter, Piotr Cywinski asked Nigeria’s President to intervene and pardon 13-year-old Omar Farouq for the conviction.

“As the director of the Auschwitz memorial, which commemorates the victims and preserves the remains of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps, where children were imprisoned and murdered, I cannot remain indifferent to this disgraceful sentence for humanity,” he wrote.

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