Mauritania: Newspaper Journalist Held Incommunicado

press release

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

Mohamed is being held incommunicado.

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