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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Editor jailed in Mauritania for libel

The managing editor of a newspaper in Mauritania has been jailed after a businessman sued for libel over an article accusing him of being involved in a drugs racket. Abdel Fettah Ould Ebeidna, of the daily newspaper Al-Aqsa, was ordered by a judge to attend a police station and immediately imprisoned. Yet the country passed a press law last year prohibiting imprisonment as a punishment for libel. (Via AllAfrica.com)

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