’12 strokes of the cane, or 2 years imprisonment, or a fine of Fifty Thousand Naira (50,000),’ Details of punishment Chief Magistrate Faruk Umar slammed on Miss Hamdiyya Sidi Shariff
A Sokoto Chief Magistrates’ Court presided over by Chief Magistrate Faruk Umar, has sentenced an 18 year old social media activist, Hamdiyya Sidi Shariff, to 12 strokes of the cane, or 2 years imprisonment, or a fine of Fifty Thousand Naira (50,000).
Platforms Africa reports that Shariff was arrested November 13, 2024, and put in prison for allegedly lamenting the rising k!illings and general insecurity in the state on social media.
She was first abducted by armed men and whisked into a tricycle while going to collect her mobile phone from a charging point. She was beaten and thrown out of a moving tricycle and left with severe injuries.
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In a viral video, she revealed how bandits pillaged their villages without any restraints, and how displaced women seeking refuge in the state capital are now being sexually exploited due to abject poverty and squalor.
The Sokoto State government first charged her before a Sharia court for the “use of insulting or abusive language” and “inciting disturbance” after she criticised Governor Ahmed Aliyu.
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