A Nigerian man who was accused of blasphemy in April of 2020 has been sentenced to 24 years in jail. For allegedly insulting Islam, something that deserves no punishment whatsoever, the 37-year-old Mubarak Bala could spend the prime years of his life behind bars.

Bala was the president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria when he was first arrested for posting criticism of Islam on his Facebook page. It wasn’t the first time he was punished for nothing. In 2014, his own family placed him in a mental hospital for the “crime” of being an atheist. While he was eventually released, it didn’t stop the threats on his life. He wouldn’t even allow a videographer or photographer from the Associated Press to come to his makeshift home because he feared what could happen to him if anyone found out where he was located.