Articles for Mauritania

The Editor in Chief of Taqadoumy news network, Hanevy Ould Dahah (33 year old resident of Nouakchott), was arrested on 18 June 2009 and held in custody for five days; after which he was brought before an investigative magistrate on charges of "civil and moral indecency". His arrest came after he published an article on Taqadoumy's website criticizing presidential candidate Ibrahima Moctar Sarr.

Alkarama wrote a communication on 22 July 2008 to the Special Rapporteur on Torture  concerning Mr. Bouraoui, a Tunisian national, arrested on 3 May 2008 at Nouakchott.  He was detained incommunicado for 25 days and severely tortured. He was then taken to a military barracks of the army headquarters, where he is still detained.

Alkarama for Human Rights has learned that on 5 June 2007, the criminal tribunal of Nouakchott acquitted 21 people who had been arrested between April and June 2005 and were held secretly for many weeks.  During this period the detainees suffered serious torture.  While three of them escaped prison, eight were provisionally freed on 27 July 2006 and the remaining ten were left in detention until being freed today.