An 18-year-old Christian convert in Nigeria has successfully secured a court order protecting her from members of her family who threatened to kill her for converting from Islam.
Her mother smuggled her to safety in a Christian community after her father and brothers threatened to kill her for her converting.
The teenager and her mother sought a restraining order, and a high court in northern Nigeria handed down an order of perpetual injunction against her father and brothers.
The order states, ‘the defendants are hereby restrained from threat and attempt on the life of the applicant following her decision to change from the practice of Islam to Christianity.’
