Algeria: El Watan denounces harassment against the journalist Ait Mouhoub

Jeudi 16 Août 2012

In a statement released Tuesday, August 14, the newspaper El Watan revealed that the journalist Zuhair Mouhoub Ait, a reporter for El Watan Weekend, been for some time harassed by elements of the plainclothes security services.
Algeria: El Watan denounces harassment against the journalist Ait Mouhoub
In a statement released  on Tuesday afternoon in Algiers, the newspaper ensures that agents "are in the spinning, lurking outside his home, the deal publicly with disparaging remarks or in a threatening tone. He was forced to move house to escape the harassment. "
 
El Watan, which denounces these "intolerable practices," says that Zouheir  Ait Mouboub is an investigative journalist who has dealt with sensitive issues on the informal criminal networks. "El Watan is in solidarity with the journalist and fully requires cease provocations against him. It reserves the right to seize the competent judicial authorities ", the newspaper reported by the TSA site.
 
Zouheir Ait Mouhoub was violently arrested, 31 July 2012, around 17 pm by four men, in Didouche Mourad Street. "You'll pay dearly for what you did", he launched one of them. They refused to lead the reporter to the police. The same evening, the four men returned the journalist waiting at the bottom of his building.



Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Algeria-El-Wata...

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