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– Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed released after 3 years in detention (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News November 14, 2017

Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed, a Mauritanian blogger sentenced to death in 2014 for "blaspheming" the Prophet in a blog post, was finally freed on 9 November 2017.
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