Mauritania: Newspaper Journalist Assaulted By First Lady's Associates

International Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing House (Toronto)

31 August 2007

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 ...