[1] On 12 June 2008, Mohamed Nema Oumar, managing editor of Al-Houriya, was arrested by the Mauritanian police after he published an article on Senator El Had and his activities in Israel.
[2] Oumar was arrested at the airport on his way back from Libya where he accompanied the Mauritanian President with an accredited press badge.
[3] Mohamed Nema Oumar was detained for 30 hours, and charged two days later with libel and insults.
[5] In July 2008, Mohammed Ould Abdel Latif, editor of Al-Houriya, was also arrested and detained by the Mauritanian police the day he published an article about corruption and briberies collected by high court judges.
[2] His article stipulated that these judges had received 68,650 euros to release a businessman and a policeman accused of drug trafficking.