Two Years After Legal Release, Mauritania Blogger Remains in Detention
Published on: Thursday 27 June 2019
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 source: https://www.voanews.com/africa/two-years-after-legal-release-mauritania-blogger-remains-detention
