Mauritania - Website editor still held three weeks after completing prison sentence

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Hanevy Ould Dehah, the editor of the website Taqadoumy, continues to be detained illegally in Nouakchott's Dar Naim prison although he should have been freed on 24 December on completing a six-month sentence on a charge of “offending public decency.” The good news is that, under pressure from his family, he has abandoned the hunger strike that was threatening his health. An appeal by the prosecutor's office was considered today by the supreme court, which ruled that Dehah's case should be sent (...)

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