| Hundreds of Mauritanians demonstrated yesterday in protest of detaining three Islamic leaders accused of distributing fake pictures of tortured prisoners. The demonstrators gathered before the central prison in the capital Nouakchott where one Islamic politician is held together with two Imams. The police was obliged to use tear gas and sticks to disperse them. The secretary general of the opposition alliance Muhammad Jamil Weld Minsawi and two imams were accused on Tuesday of falsifying and circulating photos, after al-Jazeera TV showed pictures of prisoners being tortured who were detained during earlier failed coupes. |