Outgoing Mauritanian president urged to free blogger before handing over

NewsOn the eve of tomorrow’s presidential election in Mauritania, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 11 other NGOs are publishing an open letter to President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who is constitutionally barred from running for a third term, urging him to free an imprisoned blogger before handing over to the new president in five weeks’ time. Will President Aziz use his presidential prerogatives to end the ordeal of Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed Mkhaitir, a citizen-journalist and blogger who has been held for the past fiv

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