As their first anniversary approached, Mubarak Bala and his wife, Amina, were overjoyed that they were expecting a son. But less than six weeks after his son was born and only eight months into their marriage, Bala was taken away from his family. Plainclothes officers came to his home to arrest him for insulting the prophet Muhammad before he could reunite with Amina, who resided in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja.

As their first anniversary approached, Mubarak Bala and his wife, Amina, were overjoyed that they were expecting a son. But less than six weeks after his son was born and only eight months into their marriage, Bala was taken away from his family. Plainclothes officers came to his home to arrest him for insulting the prophet Muhammad before he could reunite with Amina, who resided in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja.

As their first anniversary approached, Mubarak Bala and his wife, Amina, were overjoyed that they were expecting a son. But less than six weeks after his son was born and only eight months into their marriage, Bala was taken away from his family. Plainclothes officers came to his home to arrest him for insulting the prophet Muhammad before he could reunite with Amina, who resided in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja.