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Freed Mauritania Blasphemy Blogger arrives in Europe

danieldemol

danieldemol

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“DAKAR: A Mauritanian blogger released last week after more than five years in jail on blasphemy charges has said he only “saw the sun six times” during his incarceration, according to Amnesty International, which said he has now arrived in Europe.

Cheikh Ould Mohamed Ould Mkheitir, 36, had garnered international support during his years in prison since he was initially sentenced to death in 2014 — later commuted to a jail term — over a blog post that discussed slavery in his conservative West African nation.

He remained locked up despite having already served the sentence — a situation that sparked a chorus of protest from rights groups — but was finally released on July 29 and immediately left the country.”

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Freed Mauritania ‘blasphemy’ blogger arrives in Europe: Amnesty
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
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Blasphemy laws! No excuse for them. None.

I wonder if he has any legal means under international law of seeking restitution. If not, there should be. There should be a way of freezing the foreign assets of any government that violates your rights and then suing them for those assets in compensation for what they did to you.
 
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Wasp

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And if someone has to spend five years in prison for a murder he didn't really commit, does it mean we should do away with the law that prohibits murder?
 
danieldemol

danieldemol

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Wasp said:
And if someone has to spend five years in prison for a murder he didn't really commit, does it mean we should do away with the law that prohibits murder?
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I see no relevance whatsoever, no one is calling for the abolition of murder laws, we are calling for the abolition of blasphemy laws. Legitimate criticism of the actions of Muhammad is seen as blasphemy in Mauritania. Hence the reason such laws require abolition.

Society prospers when people are free to express their views as this then allows the best views to be selected from all possible views.

Until then slavery will continue in Mauritania because it is seen by a significant enough portion of Mauritanians as based in the life of the Prophet whom they consider the best example of a human. Hence the obvious need for dissent against their version of Muhammad.

Blasphemy laws fail to normalise dissent and thereby hold up progress.
 
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