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    Mauritania

    A Mauritanian court has opened a murder trial for three suspected al-Qaida members accused in the June 2009 slaying of an American teacher in the West African nation.

    The trial over the death of Tennessee native Christopher Leggett began Monday in the capital, Nouakchott. Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Ahmednah, Didi Ould Bezeid and Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Khouna could face the death penalty.

    Leggett, 39, was fatally shot in the Mauritanian capital, not far from a school he helped run. The North African al-Qaida group claimed responsibility, saying they killed him because he allegedly was trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.

    Extremist violence in Mauritania, a moderate Muslim nation, has increased in recent years.

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    A Mauritanian court Tuesday handed down the death penalty to the main perpetrator of the murder of American educator Christopher Legget in the capital Nouakchott in June 2009.

    Mohamed Abdallahi Ould H'Mednah was sentenced to death, while his co-accused Didi Ould Bezeid and Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Khouna received 12-year and three-year prison terms, respectively.

    The defence condemned the sentences as "severe" and said they would appeal.

    Leggett was killed in broad daylight with three bullets to the head on June 23, 2009, in the centre of Nouakchott while he was getting out of his car in front of the school of English and information technology that he had directed for several years.

    His killers at first tried to kidnap him, but when he put up strong resistance, they shot him, according to witnesses of the incident.

    Responsibility for the murder was claimed by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), an organisation that announced its allegiance to Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in 2006.

    AQIM is active in several north African countries, particularly Mauritania where it has carried out several kidnappings of Westerners and attacks.

    The Mauritanian government led by President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is one of the most committed in the region to the struggle against AQIM. Its army has carried out raids against combat units of the Islamic extremist organisation in neighbouring Mali, where AQIM has some of its bases.

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    Young Muslim faces death penalty for criticising Prophet Mohammed

    A young Muslim in Mauritania is facing a possible death sentence after being convicted of apostasy and jailed for having written an article criticising the Prophet Mohammed, a judicial source said Monday.

    He was arrested on Thursday in Nouadhibou in the northwest of the country, an Islamic republic, and “was convicted of lack of respect for the prophet,” and jailed, the source told AFP.

    The author of the article will be brought before a judge and given the chance to repent but if he refuses, “he risks the death penalty,” the source added.

    In the article, which was published on several Mauritanian websites but later removed, he questioned the decisions taken by Islam’s prophet and his companions during the holy wars.

    He also accused Mauritanian society of perpetuating “a sinful social order” and defended those at the bottom rungs of society who he described as “marginalised and discriminated against from birth.”

    It marked the first time an article criticising Islam and the prophet had been published in Mauritania, where Sharia law is enforced — although severe punishments like death sentences have not been applied since the 1980s.

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