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A man sentenced to death for sharing song lyrics on WhatsApp is finally getting a hearing at Nigeria’s Supreme Court. He has spent more than five years in prison awaiting justice.

The court will hear the case of Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a Sufi Muslim from Kano State, on Sept. 25. The ruling in this case could affect the legality of blasphemy laws in Nigeria, according to the human rights group ADF International , which is supporting the man’s case.

His legal team is asking the court not only to overturn the retrial order but to strike down Kano State’s death penalty provision for blasphemy as unconstitutional.

Sharif-Aminu was arrested in March 2020 after sharing song lyrics on WhatsApp that some considered blasphemous.

Sharif-Aminu’s conviction by a Sharia court that year sp

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