NOUAKCHOTT, July 14, (APP/AFP) – A Mauritanian journalist and opposition activist was on Thursday sentenced to three years in jail for throwing his shoe at a cabinet minister, lawyers and a judicial source told AFP.
Cheikh Baye Ould Mohamed was found guilty of “violence against a public official in the exercise of his duties” following a one-day trial in the capital Nouakchott, the sources said.
He was arrested after lobbing his shoe in the direction of a government spokesman during a press conference on June 30 and calling him a “minister of lies”.
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Mauritanian journalist who threw shoe at minister jailed for 3 years: lawyers
