Mauritania: Head of State Pardons Nine Prisoners Convicted of Extremism and Terrorism

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All had signed a manifesto of repentance a few days earlier in which they undertook to respect the security of property, persons and institutions and asked for forgiveness for the crimes they had committed, including some of the perpetrators of the Aleg attack, which had cost the lives of four French tourists in 2007.

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The head of the dialogue committee with prisoners accused of extremism in Mauritania, Mohamed Mokhtar Ould M'Baleh, stated that some Salafist prisoners refuse to participate in the dialogue or do not wish to continue it. He emphasized that the dialogue is a "voluntary choice" not imposed by the state or the committee overseeing it. During a press conference Saturday evening, Ould M'Baleh added that dialogue with prisoners does not necessarily gu…