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\"201132118114982427_20\"<\/a>Hundreds of protesters threw stones and chanted anti-government slogans in Mauritania’s capital after local media reported that Qurans were desecrated in a mosque.<\/p>\n

A young man was killed during the protests after apparently\u00a0being hit by an exploding tear-gas canister, a hospital source said.<\/p>\n

A local government source confirmed the death but said the circumstances and cause were yet to be clarified, according to AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

The violence began after four people dressed in turbans were reported to have driven to a mosque in the north of Nouakchott and taken copies of the Quran to destroy.<\/p>\n

Local media reported that on Sunday night four people entered a mosque in the Teyaret neighbourhood and tore up Qurans and threw them on the floor. It was not immediately clear who was behind that attack or what their motive was.<\/p>\n

One of them “took four copies of the Quran which he shredded before throwing them in the toilet,” the local imam said.<\/p>\n

Police fended off a large crowd bound for the presidential palace shortly after midnight,according to Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n

Communications Minister Sidi Mohamed Ould Maham called for protesters to return home at a news conference on Monday.<\/p>\n

The country operates Islamic law courts but the death penalty has not been applied for blasphemy since the 1980s.<\/p>\n

A young Muslim is facing a possible death sentence after being convicted in January of apostasy and jailed for having written an article criticising the Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n

In February a man was arrested and sent for psychiatric evaluation after urinating on a Quran in northern Mauritania.<\/p>\n

President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who has been an ally of the west in its battle against al-Qaeda in the poor and unstable Sahel region, is up for re-election in June.<\/p>\n

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Source: Aljazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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