Mauritania: Human Rights Leaders Sentenced, then Freed

9 April 1998
The World Organisation Against Torture

Geneva — The Observatory for the Protection of the Defenders of Human Rights, a programme of the FIDH and the OMCT, requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Mauritania.

Review of the facts:

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