by Gaylene Middleton | Sep 1, 2021 | Newsletter
Kia ora: In ten days it will be DAY 500 that Mubarak Bala has spent in detention in Kano, Nigeria. Mubarak Bala, a chemical engineer by training, is a prominent member of the international Humanist movement and as President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria he...
by Gaylene Middleton | Jul 27, 2021 | Newsletter
Kia ora: Before the advent of modern global communication with Email and Facebook and various other social media platforms, the Internet, which allows us to search out information, we were isolated and insular in what we knew about the situations of other people...
by Gaylene Middleton | Jun 29, 2021 | Newsletter
Kia ora: Mubarak Bala’s Humanist friends have now marked 425 days of his illegal detention. It is also 425 days of pain and anxiety for his wife, Amina, and 425 days that his son, just new-born at the time of Mubarak’s arrest, has not been able to know his father....
by Gaylene Middleton | May 31, 2021 | Newsletter
Kia ora: Humanists in Nigeria have maintained a daily Vigil of Facebook posts for the unlawful detention of their President, Mubarak Bala. Today’s Facebook post – DAY 398 (31 May) Human Beings over Human Beliefs. A year has now past and still no release to...
by Gaylene Middleton | Apr 27, 2021 | Newsletter
Kia ora: As I begin this May Newsletter, I am very conscious that today 28 April 2021 is DAY 365 of the unlawful detention of Mubarak Bala, President of the Nigerian Humanist Society. Humanist communities around the world have been waiting in vigil as every day...
