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Mauritania UPDATE: Detained ex-minister faces seven years prison sentence
Monday, October 27, 2008
Isselmou Ould Abdelkader, an independent researcher who is being detained for criticizing the country’s military regime was on October 26, 2008 charged with two counts of allegedly “lying” and “undermining the morale of the army”. He has since been sent to a civilian prison in Nouakchott. Abdelkader, a former minister in the regime of deposed President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was arrested on October 21, following his allegation on Point Lumineux, a discussion programme on Mauritanian state television that the Presidential Security Unit (BASEP), who staged the August 6 coup, were foreign mercenaries. Two staff members of the station Sidi Ould Lemjad, the host of the programme, and Limam Cheikh Ould Ely, Director of Mauritania TV were dismissed on October 9. Cheikh Ould Ely was later arrested and questioned by the National Gendarmerie on October 22. MFWA condemns these acts of repression of free speech in Mauritania. We call on the authorities to unconditionally release Abdelkader and reinstate the two staff members dismissed.
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