صحافة بلادي صحيفة إلكترونية مغاربية متجددة على مدار الساعة تعنى بشؤون المغرب الجزائر ليبيا موريتانيا تونس
Nouakchott –The Criminal Chamber of the Western Nouakchott State Court in Mauritania issued a four-year prison sentence against two parliamentarians, Maryam Sheikh Jink and Qamo Acho, after pursuing them in a case related to “deliberately insulting national symbols through digital media,” according to what local media reported.
The case comes after the two representatives, who are also activists within the IRA human rights movement, published live broadcast clips on the Facebook platform in which they criticized the authorities and the ruling regime, and also demanded the release of the activist Warda Ahmed Suleiman, who had been arrested earlier.
Media sources quoted a private source as saying that the conviction was based on what he described as a “flagrant case” of committing acts punishable by the “Symbols” Law, a law that raises widespread debate within political and legal circles in the country.
The ruling sparked renewed debate regarding the limits of parliamentary immunity in Mauritania, especially in cases related to publishing and expression via digital platforms.
In this context, the head of the Professional Association of Mauritanian Judicial Experts, Mohamed Fadel Al-Hadi, considered that the arrest of a parliamentarian in flagrante delicto is a legal exception to the principle of parliamentary immunity, pointing in return to the importance of respecting the balance between judicial follow-up and guarantees of separation of powers.
The legal and political circles in Mauritania are following the repercussions of this file, amid continuing debate about freedom of expression and the limits of implementing laws related to national symbols.
Source:“My press”
