Auschwitz memorial director offers to share Nigerian boy's blasphemy jail term

FILE PHOTO: Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Piotr Cywinski delivers a speech during the ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, on the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2020. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

LAGOS (Reuters) - The head of Poland's Auschwitz Memorial has written to Nigeria's president offering to serve part of a 10-year jail term handed to a 13-year-old boy for blasphemy.

Piotr Cywinski requested a pardon for Omar Farouq, who was accused of making blasphemous statements during an argument and sentenced by a sharia court in Nigeria's northern Kano state last month.