Showing posts with label Mauritania Journalist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mauritania Journalist. Show all posts

Friday, December 26, 2014

Mauritania Journalist Sentenced to Death for Apostasy


A court in Mauritania has sentenced 28 year old journalist Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir to death for apostasy for criticizing Prophet Muhammed. According to Reuters, the journalist was sentenced by a court in the northwestern city of Nouadhibou for an article he published almost a year ago, questioning some of the decisions Prophet Mohammed took during holy wars.