- Organisation: Freelance
- Case: Detention
- Culprit: police
- Country: Mauritania
- City: Mederdra
According to press reports and a Mauritanian source, police detained freelance journalist Mohamed Ould Lamine Mahmoudi on Sunday, March 13, after he interviewed a woman in the southern town Mederdra who claimed that she was kept as a slave by a family in another small Mauritanian town. press freedom According to the Mauritanian source, Mahmoudi, along with two anti-slavery activists who also took the woman’s testimony, were charged with fabricating information and tarnishing Mauritania’s image. The state prosecutor said that three face up to four years in prison if convicted, according to The Associated Press.