Mauritanian journalist completes sentence, remains jailed
27/12/2009
Attorneys for jailed Mauritanian journalist Hanefi Ould Dehah on Friday (December 25th) denounced what they called his "arbitrary detention", AFP and ANI reported. Ould Dehah, the editor of online newspaper Taqadoumy, completed a six-month prison term on December 24th. On Sunday, he reportedly began a hunger strike to protest his continued imprisonment.
Ould Dehah was sentenced last June for "offending public decency". Former presidential candidate and AJD-MR party chief Ibrahima Moctar Sarr had filed a defamation complaint against Dehah over an article alleging that he used campaign money to buy a villa in a residential area of Nouakchott.
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