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Court orders Mauritanian web editor’s retrial
The editor of Taqadoumy website Hanevy Ould Dehah remains in detention after a Supreme Court decision to retry him on a charge of ‘offending public decency’, a crime for which he has already served a six-month sentence. Commenting on his original trial Reporters Without Borders said “The sole aim of this disproportionate sentence is to restore the reputation of Ibrahima Moctar Sarr, a politician whose financial dealings Dehah examined.”