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Blogger escapes death penalty for apostasy on Facebook
- Tuesday | 30th July, 2019
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) – A Mauritanian blogger condemned to death in 2014 for apostasy over a Facebook post about Islam has been freed, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders and his lawyer said on Tuesday. He originally faced the death penalty for comments interpreted as a direct criticism of the Prophet Mohammad, but his sentence was later downgraded. Mkhaitir was released on Monday and immediately left Mauritania for safety reasons, his lawyer, Mohamed Ould Moine, told Reuters. In the weeks leading up to his release, the blogger apologised for his post on Facebook and on public television. Mauritania has not carried out a death sentence since 1987, but in 2016 a group of influential Muslim clerics urged authorities to apply the harshest punishment regarding Mkhaitir’s case.
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