The camera belonging to Mohamed M’Bareck, a journalist with Taqadoumy.com, an online newspapers, was seized by some police officers of the Criminal Investigation Division at the time when he was covering a rally of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA – Mauritanie), an association fighting against slavery and inequalities in the country.
On the orders of the State Prosecutor, Seyid Ould Ghaïlani, the police officers destroyed all the pictures recorded on the camera.
