Freed Mauritania Blogger Arrives in Europe

Citizen journalist Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mkhaitir was arrested on 5 January 2014 after he published a blog that discussed slavery and discrimination, including against the blacksmith caste, to which he belongs.

Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Mkhaïtir

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