Campaigners call for release of 29-year-old Mubarak Bala, who lives in Kano in Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north. A Nigerian man has been incarcerated in a mental health institution by his family after saying he had lost his belief in God.
Mubarak Bala, 29, is said to have been forcibly medicated for "insanity" for nearly two weeks, despite a doctor's opinion that he has no psychological problems.
Campaigners are calling for his release and say the case highlights the fact that atheists are a persecuted minority in many African countries.
[A COMMENT] Yet people will still continue to knock Richard Dawkins for being strident in the face of this kind of bigotry.
THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when you allow fanatical God Botherers to get control of your goddamn country. Atheism suddenly becomes a crime. You wonder why we still make a big deal about secularism? Case in point.
Let's see if we can get him out of that religious shithole.
[ANOTHER] I struggle to think of any nation build on a theocracy that isn't a miserable failure. [The Guardian] Read more
