(RSF/IFEX) – Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Ebilmaali, editor-in-chief of the independent daily “Akhbar Nouakchott”, was freed on 21 May 2005 after being held for three days. Following his release, he told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the police wanted him to show them the hiding place of Jemil Ould Mansour, an Islamist opposition leader he had recently […]
(RSF/IFEX) – Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Ebilmaali, editor-in-chief of the independent daily “Akhbar Nouakchott”, was freed on 21 May 2005 after being held for three days.
Following his release, he told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the police wanted him to show them the hiding place of Jemil Ould Mansour, an Islamist opposition leader he had recently interviewed.
“They also wanted to use me to find other fugitives, which I flatly refused to do,” added Ebilmaali, who also writes for the Arabic-language edition of the daily “Nouakchott-Info” and is a stringer for the German public radio station Deutsche-Welle.
