Death penalty looms for Mauritanian blogger accused of insulting Islam

Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir is pictured in a courtroom in
Nouadhibou, Mauritania, in April in a picture supplied by his sister.

Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir awaits the final verdict for a blog seen as critical of Mauritania's caste system.

In the dusty Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, thousands