Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Azizon has ordered amnesty to 100 prisoners sentenced under the common law including 15 foreigners. The amnesty came on the eve of Friday's celebrations of Aid Al Mouloud which commemorates the birth of Prophet Mohamed. 'The presidential decree excludes those who were sentenced for drug trafficking, rape and bloody crimes,' a judicial source announced on Thursday. The final list of the beneficiaries of the amnesty has yet to be released. In the local media circle, there is anxiety about whether journalist Hanefi Ould Dehah could be freed after sentenced two years in prison on charges of a publication crime. The Mauritanian Journalists Union had written to the president asking him to pardon Ould Dehah during the Mouloud festival. 