Mauritanie: deux députées de l'opposition condamnées pour avoir accusé le président de discrimination
Two opposition MPs in Mauritania were sentenced on Monday evening to four years in prison for accusing President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani of racial discrimination against Black people and descendants of slaves in the West African country.
Mariem Cheikh and Ghamou Achour, who were convicted by the criminal chamber of the Nouakchott Court, were prosecuted for "insulting state symbols and disseminating racist remarks".
They were notably accused of having described President Ghazouani on social media as a mentor of "apartheid in Mauritania".
They were also being prosecuted for "insulting national symbols and disseminating racist remarks on social media".
The two women are members of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), a human rights organization.
The court also ordered "the removal of digital content, the confiscation of their phones and the closure of their online accounts".
Their detention and trial - which took place under high security surveillance - were strongly denounced by the Mauritanian opposition, which condemned it as "sequestration" and "abusive use of the flagrant offense procedure to circumvent parliamentary immunity".
Although officially abolished in 1981, slavery persists in Mauritania and remains a sensitive subject in the country, even though sanctions were toughened in 2015.
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