RSF condemns jailing of Mauritanian online journalist
2009-08-21
In a statement on Thursday (August 20th), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) strongly criticised the six-month prison sentence and heavy fine handed a day earlier to Mauritanian journalist Hanefi Ould Dehah, the editor of online newspaper Taqadoumy. Dehah, who was sentenced for "offending public decency", has been jailed since June on a defamation complaint brought by AJD-MR party chief Ibrahima Moctar Sarr.
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