Arabic News Weekly Edition for Mauritania, 4/25/2005
Weekly Edition, Mauritania - Week of April 25, 2005
- Continued acts of detention in Mauritania
The police in Mauritania continued acts of detentions which targeted almost 18 members of the Islamic trend, in addition to several unidentified persons, according to sources close to the Islamists. Mauritania, Politics, 4/28/2005 - Mauritania justifies detaining Islamists over their alliance with al-Qaida
The government of Mauritania justified a new campaign of arrests in the lines of Islamists opposition members for maintaining alliance with "al-Salafeyah group for the call and fighting" in Algeria, which is close to al-Qaida organization. Mauritania, Politics, 4/28/2005