21 August 2008

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Two journalists released conditionally


Incident details

Mohamed Ould Abdelatif, Mohamed Nema Oumar

released

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(RSF/IFEX) - Mohamed Abdellatif, publisher of the privately-owned weekly paper "Al Houriya", and one of his reporters, Mohamed Nema Oumar, were conditionally released by the Nouakchott appeals court on 17 August 2008. They were arrested and imprisoned on 21 July.



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Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
rsf (@) rsf.org
Phone: +33 1 44 83 84 84
Fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51
@rsf_rwb
 

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