A younger Mauritanian blogger whose loss of life penalty for blasphemy was downgraded to a -12 months sentence that led to November is still in detention despite developing calls for his launch.
Cheikh Ould Mohamed Ould Mkheitir was given a -year period on November 9 after he repented for charges of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a blog publish and left prison due to the fact he had already served four years in jail. He had at first been sentenced to death on December 24, 2014. But on Friday, Rassoul Ould El-Khal, a senior official within the countrywide rights fee, said he turned into “nevertheless in administrative detention expecting the quiet of the judicial process.”
The Mauritanian government has no longer commented on his fate considering that November. A knowledgeable source told AFP he become “being held in a comfy area in Nouakchott,” the Mauritanian capital. This administrative detention breaches the law,” the blogger’s attorney, Fatimata M’Baye, told AFP. Some 20 NGOs on Friday also asked the nation to stop the “secrecy” and assure the safety of the blogger, who is in his thirties.
The death sentence has no longer be applied in Mauritania in view that 1987. Mkheitir was accused of challenging decisions taken via the Prophet Mohammed and his companions during holy wars in the 7th century. He also attacked the mistreatment of u . S. A .’s black population, blasting “an iniquitous social order” with an underclass that became “marginalized and discriminated against from delivery,” and to which he belongs.
Modern-day slavery in Mauritania, below a hereditary gadget of servitude, forces members of the “slave” caste to work without pay as livestock herders and home servants, despite an official ban. Cheikh Ould Mohamed Ould Mkheitir was given a -year period on November 9 after he repented for charges of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a blog publish and have left prison the fact he had already served four years in jail.
He had at first been sentenced to death on December 24, 2014.
But on Friday, Rassoul Ould El-Khal, a senior official within the countrywide rights fee, said he turned into “nevertheless in administrative detention expecting the quiet of the judicial process.” The Mauritanian government has no longer commented on his fate considering that November. A knowledgeable source told AFP he become “being held in a comfy area in Nouakchott,” the Mauritanian capital. ““This administrative detention breaches the law,” the blogger’s attorney, Fatimata M’Baye, told AFP.
Some 20 NGOs on Friday also asked the nation to stop the “secrecy” and assure the blogger’s safety, who is in his thirties. The death sentence has no longer be applied in Mauritania in view that 1987. Mkheitir was accused of challenging decisions taken via the Prophet Mohammed and his companions during holy wars in the 7th century. He also attacked the mistreatment of u . S. A .’s black population, blasting “an iniquitous social order” with an underclass that became “marginalized and discriminated against from delivery,” and to which he belongs. Modern-day slavery in Mauritania, below a hereditary gadget of servitude, forces members of the “slave” caste to work without pay as livestock herders and home servants, despite an official ban.
