(RSF/IFEX) – The latest Arab-labguage edition of the newspaper “La Tribune” was censored on 10 June 1998. Authorities offered no explanantion for the action. “This is the fifth time in less than a month that we have been targeted by authorities,” Mohammed Fall Oumere, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, said during a telephone conversation. “We already practise […]
(RSF/IFEX) – The latest Arab-labguage edition of the newspaper “La Tribune”
was censored on 10 June 1998. Authorities offered no explanantion for the
action. “This is the fifth time in less than a month that we have been
targeted by authorities,” Mohammed Fall Oumere, the newspaper’s
editor-in-chief, said during a telephone conversation. “We already practise
self-censorship. Now they want to make us disappear.”
Recommended Action
Send appeals to authorities:
either to suspend or to confiscate “La Tribune” have been issued by
authorities under Article 11 of the Press Law, which permits the Ministry of
the Interior to censor arbitrarily, and without explanation, any newspaper
independent media and to “La Tribune” in particular betrays a willingness to
diminish even further press freedom in Mauritania
Tribune” is revoked and so that Article 11 of the Press Law is annulled
Appeals To
His Excellency Ould Sid Ahmed Taya
President of the Islamic Republic Mauritania
Nouakchott, Mauritanie
Fax: +011 222 2 568 90
Please copy appeals to the source if possible.
