MAURITANIA,
May 24 (Islamonline.net) - The Mauritanian Center for Human Rights, The
Public Mauritanian Front, The Afro-Arab Committee for Salvation, and The
Mauritanian Movement for Democracy and Citizenship called Saturday, May
24, in Paris for protesting against the escalation of the detention
campaign - held by the Mauritanian government days after Casablanca
explosions - against Islamic activists, especially (opposition) Muslim
Brotherhood, as well as some of the Baathi leaders in the country.
Protests,
planned to take place Sunday, May 25, are scheduled to start from human
rights square in Paris.
Since
the first of May, the Mauritanian authorities had detained more than 50
activists with Islamic attitudes besides the key members of Al Baath
party.
But
for the first time since the campaign had begun, the human rights
activists were able to notice female detentions, included 4 of the
Muslim Brotherhood female activists, one of them is Al-Noon Bentul
Hassan, the academic professor.
Mauritanian
authorities accuses the Baathi members of practicing their activities
through what they called an ‘unlicensed party’ which is Al-Nohoud
party. The party’s members, however, maintain that their party has all
the legal and the constitutional assets demanded by the Mauritanian
constitution, which gives political parties the right to commence their
activities in case the government did not reply to their request of
establishment within 60 days.
In
another development, the Mauritanian Supreme Court eliminated the
parliamentary immunity of the Muslim Brotherhood eminent leader Muhammad
Jameel Weld Mansour, 3 weeks after his detention.
Weld
Mansour, the mayor of Arafat municipality in the Mauritanian capital
Nouakchott was accused of violence incitation and using mosques as
connection points for ‘terrorist groups’, quoted Weld Muhammad
Khuna, the Mauritanian prime minister as saying.
Meanwhile,
the Authorities confiscated for the eighth time, edition 116 of Al-Raya
newspaper - known by its strong Islamic tendencies and its clear
criticism of to ‘normalization’ with Israel adopted by the
government.
Early
this month, Al-Murabitt Weld Muhammad Al-Ameen, the minister of culture
and Islamic direction, accused the ‘Islamists’ of promoting rumors
and black propaganda which aim at misinforming worshippers inside
mosques, quoting him.
