{"id":7612,"date":"2026-01-26T05:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/religious-freedom-in-nigerias-kano-state\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T05:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:30:06","slug":"religious-freedom-in-nigerias-kano-state","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/religious-freedom-in-nigerias-kano-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Freedom in Nigeria\u2019s Kano State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"block-layout-region\">\n<div id=\"block-herointernalpageblock\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-hero-internal-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero_wrapper custom-hero  internal-hero-js-adjust\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero\" style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 3%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)), url(\" https: www.uscirf.gov themes custom uscirf2020 assets images defaulthero.png\"); background-position-x: center; background-position-y: center\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h1 class=\"internal-hero-title\">Religious Freedom in Nigeria\u2019s Kano State <\/h1>\n<div class=\"custom-breadcrumb hidden\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"insertNavHere\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"container\">\n              <a target=\"_blank\" id=\"main-content\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-drupal-messages-fallback class=\"hidden\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-uscirf2020-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"basic-page\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-section paragraph-unique-16926\" style=\"\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-animation-delay=\"0.3\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"single-container row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"full-content\">\n<p>This report catalogues recent religious freedom violations committed by Kano state authorities, which represent some of the most egregious in Nigeria. In recent years\u2014including in 2021\u2014Kano authorities have arrested, charged, and convicted several individuals of blasphemy, prohibited broadcast stations from airing religious content, restricted religious poets and performers, and arrested and detained individuals from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) community based on the enforcement of their interpretation of Shari\u2019a (Islamic law).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn-primary single-cta-btn\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-10\/2021%20Kano%20Policy%20Update.pdf\">View PDF<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-taxonomytermview\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-taxonomy-term-view\">\n<div class=\"content\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/publication\/religious-freedom-nigerias-kano-state?rand=6542\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious Freedom in Nigeria\u2019s Kano State This report catalogues recent religious freedom violations committed by Kano state authorities, which represent some of the most egregious in Nigeria. In recent years\u2014including in 2021\u2014Kano authorities have arrested, charged, and convicted several individuals of blasphemy, prohibited broadcast stations from airing religious content, restricted religious poets and performers, and arrested and detained individuals from&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99044,"featured_media":7613,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[766,1415,1414,661,436],"ground_category":[315,320],"class_list":["post-7612","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-freedom","tag-kano","tag-nigerias","tag-religious","tag-state","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-5-time-martyrdom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-10\/Kano%20State%20update.JPG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/7612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/7612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7612"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=7612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}