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A demonstration was held outside the UN offices in Nouakchott yesterday demanding that Mauritanian Guantanamo detainees Mohamed Ould Sellahi and Ahmedou Ould Abdel Aziz be freed. Cheikh Ould Mohamed Ould Mkheitir was imprisoned last week for writing an article that allegedly defamed the Prophet Mohammed. President Mohamed Aziz has reaffirmed that Mauritania is an Islamic state, not a secular one.