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Alerts - Mauritania

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Mauritania

ANHRI condemns detention of activist

Wan Biran, coordinator of the Do Not Touch My Nationality movement, was detained while visiting his brother in the National Hospital.

Mauritania / Morocco

Moroccan journalist expelled

The authorities have given no reason for the expulsion of Abdelhafiz al-Baqali, who has been working in the capital for two years.

Mauritania

Senegalese TV crew arrested, equipment seized

The crew had been in the country since August 13 on an assignment that included interviewing the leader of the opposition Democratic Party and the president of a local abolitionist movement.

Mauritania

Police attack anti-slavery campaigners

Activists, under the banner of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement, were attacked with batons and tear gas, resulting in several injured.

Mauritania / United Arab Emirates

ANHRI condemns blocking of newspaper's website after UAE intervention

The website of "El Badil Al Thalith" was blocked as a result of pressure from Emirati authorities on the hosting company after it published a series of articles criticising Arab leaders.

Mauritania

Police detain reporter for several hours

Mohammed Ould Abdel Latif, a reporter with the privately-owned "El Hayat", was arrested while interviewing traders about the police's alleged involvement in tax collection.

Mauritania

National Assembly adopts bill to liberalise airwaves and loosen governmental control on state-owned media

A government representative said the law would liberalise the electronic media and eliminate the state's monopoly over public media.

Mauritania

Website editor freed under presidential pardon

Hanevy Ould Dehah's lawyer thanked all those who fought for his release and said without them his client would still be in prison.

Mauritania

Court imposes new two-year sentence on website editor

Hanevy Ould Dehah, editor of the website Taqadoumy, was convicted at the end of an incomprehensible and arbitrary trial.

Mauritania

Still held illegally, website editor re-tried on same charge

Hanevy Ould Dehah should have been released on 24 December 2009 on completing a six-month sentence on a trumped-up charge.

Mauritania

Journalist held past his release date, begins hunger strike in protest

Hanafi Oueld Dah was due to be released on 24 December 2009 but a court rejected an appeal for his release.

Mauritania

Another online journalist detained, released

Djibril Diallo must report daily to the police until further notice.

Mauritania

Website editor gets six months in prison for "offending public decency"

Hanevy Ould Dehah was arrested on the orders of the prosecutor's office on 18 June 2009 as a result of a complaint by a presidential candidate.

Mauritania

Detained website editor faces up to five years in prison

Reporters Without Borders condemns charges that were brought against Hanevy Ould Dehah, the editor of the website Taqadoumy.

Mauritania

News website director arrested

On 18 June, the director of the news website Taqadoumy, Hanevy Ould Dehah, was arrested on the orders of the prosecutor's office.

Mauritania

Police assault journalists, local correspondent arrested and briefly detained

Police in Mauritania physically assaulted a group of journalists and prevented them from covering a sit-down strike by members of the National Bar Association

Mauritania

Leading journalist escapes murder attempt

The journalist was left for dead after being battered and slashed by two men wielding baseball bats and knives on the evening of 12 May 2009

Mauritania

Journalist harassed by party activists

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 4 May 2009, Mamouni Ould Moctar, reporter with Agence Nouakchott d'Information, a Nouakchott-based newswire service, was manhandled by political party activists who were protesting the electoral timetable proposed by the military junta to return the country to democratic rule.

Mauritania

Jailed newspaper editor pardoned by head of military government

Reporters Without Borders hails the release of Abdel Fettah Ould Abeidna, editor of the weekly "Al Aqsa", on 8 April 2009 as a result of a pardon issued by the head of the military government, Gen. Ould Abdel Aziz.

Mauritania

Online Journalist Abou Abbass Ould Brahim released after three days in detention, website allowed to reopen

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has learned that writer and journalist Abou Abbass Ould Brahim, the editor of the news website Taqadoumy ( http://www.taqadoumy.com ), was released on 18 March 2009 after being held for three days in the Mauritanian capital and that the website was allowed to reopen 24 hours after the Nouakchott prosecutor's office ordered its closure.

Mauritania

Reporters Abdallahi Ould Tfagha Moctar and Mohamed Lemine Ould Moustapha briefly detained

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 11 March 2009, Abdallahi Ould Tfagha Moctar and Mohamed Lemine Ould Moustapha, reporters for Sahara Media, a Nouakchott-based independent newswire service, were arrested by Mauritania National Security personnel, allegedly for filming the entrance to the Nouakchott civil prison.

Mauritania

Former legislator Isselmou Ould Abdelkader granted bail after three months in prison for criticising military regime

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 3 February 2009, the Supreme Court granted bail to Isselmou Ould Abdelkader, a former legislator, after he spent over three months in prison for criticising the country's military regime.

Mauritania

Journalist detained, police destroy photos

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 13 January 2009, Sidi Mohamed Ould Abderrahmane, a journalist with the independent news wire service Agence Nouakchott d'Information, was detained by police.

Mauritania

Newspaper editor jailed in Nouakchott after being extradited from Dubai

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders condemns the imprisonment of Abdel Fettah Ould Abeidna, the editor of the privately-owned Arabic-language weekly "Al-Aqsa", on 30 November 2008 in Nouakchott on a criminal libel charge. Abeidna was immediately jailed on his arrival from Dubai, from where he was extradited.

Mauritania

Detained ex-minister faces seven-year prison sentence

(MFWA/IFEX) - Isselmou Ould Abdelkader, an independent researcher who is being detained for criticising the country's military regime, was charged on 26 October 2008 with two counts of allegedly "lying" and "undermining the morale of the army".

Mauritania

Television host dismissed, station director arrested following live debate

(MFWA/IFEX) - Isselmou Ould Abdelkader, an independent researcher and former minister, was arrested on 21 October 2008 in Nouakchott by members of the combined unit of the national gendarmerie following a complaint lodged against him by Mauritania's defence minister.

Mauritania

Cameraman assaulted by trade unionists; newspaper editor assaulted by police

(MFWA/IFEX) - Mohamed Ould Moustapha, a cameraman with the local Mauritanian office of the Qatari television network Al Jazeera, was assaulted on 8 October 2008 by trade union activists in Nouakchott.

Mauritania

Two journalists released conditionally

(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.

Mauritania

Journalist arrested while covering demonstration

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 7 August 2008, Ahmed Ould Neda, a reporter for Akbar Info, a Nouakchott-based independent news agency, was arrested and detained by the Mauritanian police while covering a demonstration against the new military regime in the country.

Mauritania

Journalist, publisher arrested over article on judicial corruption

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrest of Mohamed Ould Abdelatif and Mohamed Nema Oumar, respectively journalist and publisher of the privately-owned Arabic-language weekly "Al-Hurriya", in connection with a "defamation" complaint from three judges at the criminal appeal court.

Mauritania

Publisher of Arabic-language weekly charged with "libel and insult"

(RSF/IFEX) - Mohamed Nema Oumar, the publisher of the privately-owned, Arabic-language weekly "Al-Houriya", was released on the evening of 13 June 2008 after being held for 30 hours in a police station in the Nouakchott district of Tevragh Zeina.

Mauritania

Journalist detained briefly

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 27 May 2008, Errabi Ould Idoumou, journalist with Sahara Media, an independent Mauritanian media and communication agency, was arrested by the Gendarmerie and detained for thirty minutes at a Nouakchott court.

Mauritania

Journalist released after being detained for a week

(MFWA/IFEX) - Mohamed Salem Ould Mohamed, a reporter with "Assiraj", an Arabic-language newspaper, was released on 31 March 2008 by the Mauritanian Criminal Investigations Department (CID) after being held incommunicado since his arrest on 25 March.

Mauritania

Two newspaper journalists arrested, one released, the other held incommunicado

(MFWA/IFEX) - Mohamed Salem Ould Mohamed, reporter with "Assiraj", an Arabic language newspaper, was on 25 March 2008 arrested and detained at the Headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Mauritanian police.

Mauritania

Appeals court upholds one-year prison sentence for editor accused of defaming businessman

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 11 February 2008, an appeals court in Nouakchott confirmed the one-year prison sentence imposed on Abdel Fettah Ould Abeidna, managing editor of the "Al-Aqsa" newspaper, for defaming businessman Mohamed Ould Bouammatou.

Mauritania

Editor of "al-Aqsa" jailed for one year in "poorly conducted" trial, says RSF

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the outcome of the trial of Abdel Fattah Ould Abeidna, managing editor of the privately-owned paper "al-Aqsa", sentenced, on 7 November 2007, to one year in jail for "false accusation" of a businessman whom he accused him without proof of being a drug-trafficker.

Mauritania

Newspaper journalist assaulted by First Lady's associates; bodyguards who assaulted another journalist get 30 days in prison

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders calls for an investigation into a physical attack on Elvaka Ould Cheibany, the privately-owned daily "Nouakchott Info"'s correspondent in the northern city of Nouadhibou, by two members of First Lady Mint Boukhary's immediate entourage on 28 August 2007. The two men, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Kebady and Noman Ould Noman, accosted Cheibany inside a car rental agency, asked him to step outside and then beat him up without giving any explanation. Cheibany thinks it may have been a reprisal for an article the week of 19 August about the First Lady's growing power and her run-ins with the press.

Mauritania

Prime minister's bodyguards beat radio reporter; first lady sues newspaper editor

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a 16 August 2007 attack on radio journalist Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Moghdad by the prime minister's bodyguards, as well as a charge of "libelling the First Lady" that was brought against newspaper editor Sidi Mohamed Ould Ebbe on 18 August, which could result in a prison sentence.

Mauritania

Opposition party chairman withdraws complaint against journalists

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 4 June 2007, chairman of the opposition Popular Front political party, Ch'bih Ould Cheikh Malainnie, withdrew complaints of defamation he filed against three journalists from privately-owned Nouakchott-based newspapers.

Mauritania

Journalist released on bail; three others interrogated by police

(MFWA/IFEX) - Abdel Fettah Ould Abeidna, managing editor of "Al-Aqsa", a daily Arabic-language newspaper, was granted bail on 28 May 2007 by a Nouakchott court after spending four days in prison for allegedly defaming a businessman, Mohamed Ould Bouammatou.

Mauritania

Newspaper editor jailed after accusing businessman of drug trafficking

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has called for the immediate release of Abdel Fettah Ould Ebeidna, managing editor of the daily newspaper "Al-Aqsa", who was sent to prison in Nouakchott on 24 May 2007 because of a libel complaint against him by a businessman.

Mauritania

Journalist threatened by credit union official over critical coverage

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 27 April 2007, Mohammed Ould Saleck, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mutpêche, a credit union for fishermen in Mauritania, threatened to throw Isselmou Ould Mustapha, managing editor of "Tahalil Hebdo", an independent weekly newspaper, into the sea for refusing to disclose a source of information.

Mauritania

Supporters of unsuccessful candidates threaten al-Jazeera staff

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned supporters of some candidates eliminated in the first round of presidential elections, who forced their way into the offices of al-Jazeera TV in Nouakchott and threatened staff.

Mauritania

Presidential election campaign being covered fairly by public media, says RSF

(RSF/IFEX) - The following is an abridged version of a 13 March 2007 RSF press release:

Mauritania

Editor attacked after receiving death threats

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a 15 February 2006 attack on Khalil Ould Jdoud, editor-in-chief of the Arabic-language daily "Al Akhbar", which began when a score of armed men sent by an ex-colonel-turned-businessman burst into the newspaper's offices looking for him.

Mauritania

Military leader keeps promise to let RFI resume FM broadcasts

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the resumption of FM broadcasts by Radio France Internationale (RFI) in Nouakchott after a ban imposed in October 2000 was lifted. The authorities gave the go-ahead at the end of a visit to Nouakchott by RFI's deputy director for international relations, Jean-Marc Belchi.

Mauritania

Journalist and his assistant jailed

(MFWA/IFEX) - Moulaye Najim, a journalist with "Points Chauds" newspaper, and Abdel Ould Sejad, his assistant, were jailed on October 19, 2005 for allegedly publishing pornographic pictures taken at Nouakchott Civilian Prison. Najim has since been released, but Sejad remains in jail.

Mauritania

New military leader promises to amend press law and let RFI resume FM broadcasts

(RSF/IFEX) - During a 25 October 2005 meeting, Mauritania's new military leader, Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, assured a Reporters Without Borders delegation that the new government will promote democratic press reforms during the current transition. He also said the French public radio station, Radio France Internationale (RFI), will soon be able to resume FM broadcasts in Mauritania.

Mauritania

RSF issues twelve press freedom recommendations for month-old military junta

(RSF/IFEX) - The following is a 2 September 2005 RSF statement:

Mauritania

Journalist detained in anti-Islamist raid released

(RSF/IFEX) - Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Ebilmaali, editor-in-chief of the independent daily "Akhbar Nouakchott", was freed on 21 May 2005 after being held for three days.

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