According to his family, the young activist Souvi Ould Jibril Ould Cheine succumbed to a tough interrogation in a police station shortly after his arrest. Very present on social networks, Souvi Ould Jibril Ould Cheine was arrested Thursday evening.
With our correspondent in Nouakchott, Salem Mejbour Salem
According to his family, it was at police station number 2 in Dar Naim, in the north-eastern suburbs of Nouakchott, that Souvi Ould Jibril Ould Cheine died, following ill-treatment. One of his sisters assures that his lifeless body was transported by the police to the Cheikh Zayed hospital in Nouakchott. Traces of torture were visible, insists Khatar Ould Cheine, one of the victim’s brothers.
Maître Fatimata Mbaye, president of the Mauritanian Association for Human Rights (AMDH), denounces an inadmissible act.
” The AMH strongly condemns this despicable act. We demand that the perpetrators be punished and that they be brought to justice, that the whole truth be revealed about this case and that reparation be made. It is an intolerable act that we do not accept. »
” I appeal to the Mauritanian authorities to carry out a transparent and rapid investigation to reassure Mauritanians that torture is truly considered by the State and its various bodies as a crime against humanity. says Biram Dah Abeid, human rights defender and opposition MP.
For its part, the General Directorate of Security promises to shed light on this affair, as does the National Commission for Human Rights.