Mohamed Lemine Ch'bih Ould Cheikh Malainine (born 12 December 1951, in Atar) is a Mauritanian politician.
[1] Ould Cheikh Melainine was born in Atar, then part of the French Colony of Mauritania, on 12 December 1951.
The Prosecution didn't offer any circumstantial evidence, with the focus being on confessions given by the three, as well as oral testimony from two Government informants, who were deemed "non-credible" by some independent experts.
[3] The defense also claimed that the confessions had been only given under alleged "duress",[3] and that Mauritanian police had possibly "drugged" the defendants during their interrogation.
[3] There were fears over Ould Cheikh Melainine's fate after he fell seriously ill in February 2002 at the prison where he was being held.
In response he was moved to a hospital in Ayoun et Atrous until he had fully recovered, at which point he was returned to prison.