According to Abdel Nasser Beibe, a Mauritanian activist and representative of the Arab Thinking Foundation, there are many people who wrote about the same things as Mohamed, but they belong to the white community, who are the majority of the people, and no one asks for their death. Their tribes and their families defend them against any attack. But Mohamed comes from the "blacksmith" minority, and are very marginalized. After the article, his family and caste had to deny him, and his parents had to go into exile in France.
Mekfoula Brahim, activist and president of For a Green and Democratic Mauritania says that Mohamed was a victim of a very hard prison sentence because he belongs to a powerless and hated group. Mekfoula says Muhamed's future is being controlled by street fanatics, who receive orders from extremist clerics influenced by radicals who have returned from Afghanistan and Iraq, who press them to execute the boy.
The president of Mauritania, Abdel Aziz spoke to the country in January 2014, saying Mauritanian is an Islamic state and the death penalty could be used against Mohamed. Abdel Aziz ususally wears a business suit and tie in public, and when he speaks with Western allies, like the United States and France. but when he spoke to the nation about Momhamed Ould Mkhaitir, he wore a white Salafi robe and turban.
An appeal court heard the case on April 1, 2016, under tight security. The court upheld the verdict, but sent the case back to Mauritania's supreme court. On Jan. 31, 2017, Mauritania’s supreme court heard the case, and returned it to the appeal court. There were organized demonstrations in Nouadhibou, Aleg, and Rosso.
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In 1995 it reached public notoriety in his country afterwards that comandara to the army of the Ecuador in the War of the Cenepa in the same zone of conflict until the signature of the cessation to the fire signed to finals of March of 1995. For the official history of his country, defended successfully the ecuadorian positions loomed by the invasion of the Peru, while for the Peruvian official version was to charge of the operation of "double toponymy" with which the ecuadorian army created detachments in Peruvian territory with names of others already existent in Ecuador to confuse to the public opinion.
Between the most important charges that occupied can signal :
It is necessary to stand out that it is the only to be a member of the history of the Ecuador in attaining complete 40 years of military life, 5 like Cadet and 35 like Official. Arriving finally of his military career afterwards of the conflict of the Cenepa and attaining be one of the best soldiers of all Ecuador
It has received also several condecoraciones national and international between which by his importance stand out: