Journalists in Mauritania demanded their exemption from the night curfew, imposed by the authorities to prevent the outbreak of the Coronavirus, due to the nature of their work that requires them to move at night from one place to another.
work to confront the Coronavirus.
Press reports confirmed that the authorities did not respond to the journalists’ call to exclude them from the night curfew, which sparked a wave of anger among them, and while many considered that the decision not excluding them, did not prevent them from moving at the time of the ban at night, stressing that the police and the army greatly facilitated their mission.
Others said that not excluding journalists would open the door to a kind of discrimination and selectivity regarding those who are allowed to move at night, considering that it will become bound to the mood of the security administration in the absence of strict controls.
Ould Dah pointed out that he met the Director of State Security and discussed with him the facilitation of the mission of journalists in light of the night curfew, and promised him to “facilitate the mission of journalists in public media institutions through lists received from their institutions, while what will be considered in relation to journalists in private media institutions”.
The captain added that some of them were granted authorizations to facilitate their mission until the end of the week, and that he asked the security department to involve international correspondents in this exception, stressing that “the union is ready to help journalists who benefit from the facilitation to have discipline and professional responsibility for the sensitivity of the position that was assigned to the security institutions.”
The Mauritanian government has announced the imposition of curfew all over the country, from 6 pm until 6 am as part of its measures to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.
Mauritania recorded two cases of the Coronavirus, the first of an Australian tourist and the second of a foreign domestic worker.
#Mauritania #Coronavirus #COVID19 #Journalists #Curfew
English 
العربية