News Mauritania Religion: Free Badawi and others held in prison for religious expression: US to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan
Speaking at a high-level State Department conference on religious freedom, Pence listed Badawi along with prisoners in Eritrea, Mauritania and Pakistan who he said were being held for religious ...
News Mauritania Religion: US demands Saudi Arabia release 'critic of Islam'
Pence noted the detention of religious dissidents in Eritrea, Mauritania, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. "All four of these men have stood strong in defence of religious liberty despite unimaginable ...
News Mauritania Religion: Mauritania : Joint letter to President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
In January 2014, authorities arrested Mkhaitir days after he published an article online denouncing what he considered the misuse of religion to justify discrimination among castes in Mauritania. In ...
News Mauritania Religion: Egyptian Anchor Mocked on Social Media for Mauritania Gaffe
An Egyptian sports anchor has been mocked on social media for asking a football fan from West African state Mauritania where he learnt to speak Arabic. Medhat Shalaby made the gaffe during an interview with the Mauritanian student ahead of the country's debut match at the African Cup of Nations. "You learnt the Arabic language in Mauritania?" Shalaby asked the religion student. "Yes of course... ," he responded. "You learnt it a long time ago or recently?" the anchor then asks.
News Mauritania Religion: Two Years After Legal Release, Mauritania Blogger Remains in Detention
Nearly six years after his arrest, and two years after he was legally set free, Mauritanian lawyers and international rights groups are calling for authorities to release blogger Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mkhaitir. Citizen journalist and blogger Mkhaitir was arrested in 2013 and sentenced to death for what the state called blasphemy after he wrote a blog post condemning the use of religion to justify racial discrimination. In 2017, a Mauritanian court commuted Mkhaitir's sentence to two years — which he had already served, legally liberating him.
News Mauritania Religion: How Mauritania exports religion to Saudi Arabia—And not just the other way around
This post is part of a series of analyses on the geopolitics of religious soft power. When considering Saudi Arabia’s religious soft power, the West African nation of Mauritania offers an important ...
News Mauritania Religion: Africa and the Blood of Christians
For instance, the latest report from the Aid to the Church in Need cites significant violations of religious liberty in Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Kenya, Libya, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, ...
News Mauritania Religion: New report paints a grim picture of press freedom in Africa
Mauritania, which also came down by a whopping 22 positions to be ranked the 94, continued its “precipitous” fall by failing to release Mr Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed Mkaitir, a blogger who was ...
