NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) – Muslim clerics in Mauritania on Sunday entreated the government to execute a blogger who was sentenced to loss of life in 2014 for apostasy after writing a blog submission on Islam racial discrimination. Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ould Mahathir’s article touched a nerve in Mauritania, a West African U. S . A . with deep social and racial divisions.

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He was tried for apostasy and acquired the loss of life penalty, notwithstanding having repented and pronouncing his article became misunderstood. In keeping with the U.S.-based Freedom, Now rights institution that offers Mkhaitir prison counsel, the blog submission seems to have been the primary he posted. Before his arrest, he worked as an engineer for a mining employer and changed into not an activist, Freedom Now said on its internet site.

Mauritania has no longer carried out the death penalty because in 1987, however, on Sunday, the influential Forum of Imams and Ulemas issued a fatwa, or Islamic decree, calling for Mkhaitir to be killed. It condemned “Mkhaitir and his heresy, recalling that the legal penalty in his case is a loss of life, and not using an exception made for his repentance,” In step with a declaration. “We call for that the in a position government apply the regulation: kill him and bury him in conformity with the law of God. Rights companies like Amnesty Worldwide and Newshounds Without Borders have campaigned for Mahathir’s pardon and release.