Two journalists released conditionally

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

21 August 2008

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(RSF/IFEX) – Mohamed Abdellatif, publisher of the privately-owned weekly paper “Al Houriya”, and one of his reporters, Mohamed Nema Oumar, were conditionally released by the Nouakchott appeals court on 17 August 2008. They were arrested and imprisoned on 21 July.

(RSF/IFEX) – Mohamed Abdellatif, publisher of the privately-owned weekly paper “Al Houriya”, and one of his reporters, Mohamed Nema Oumar, were conditionally released by the Nouakchott appeals court on 17 August 2008. They were arrested and imprisoned on 21 July.

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