21. 据来文方称，2017 年 8 月 10 日 Ghadde 先生被捕时，执行逮捕的警察未能提供剥夺他自由的理由或法律依据。Ghadde 先生随后被单独监禁了一周，直至2017 年 8 月 17 日，期间未能获准与家人或律师交流或见面。在这一周内，Ghadde 先生没有被告知被捕的原因。2017 年 8 月 18 日，他正式被警方拘留。公共检察官办公室在一份公报中表示，警方拘留是必须的，是对协助、教唆和策划大规模跨境犯罪行为的调查的一部分，这些犯罪行为违背毛里塔尼亚的社会道德和价值观，是在一个有组织结构的庇护下实施的，目的是造成混乱和破坏公共安全。然而，据来文方称，《刑法》中没有与大规模跨境犯罪指控相对应的罪行。在同一份公报中，公共检察官办公室声称，被拘留者和另一名嫌疑人同时被捕，根据是一名军官关于捏造事件和散布虚假陈述的投诉。
21. According to the source, when Mr. Ghadde was arrested on 10 August 2017, the police officers who executed the arrest were unable to provide the reasons or legal basis for his deprivation of liberty. Mr. Ghadde was then detained incommunicado for a week, until 17 August 2017, without being allowed to communicate with or see his family or lawyers. During that week, Mr. Ghadde was not informed of the reasons for his arrest. His police custody officially began on 18 August 2017. The public prosecutor’s office stated in a communiqué that the police custody was necessary as part of an investigation into the aiding, abetting and planning of large-scale cross-border crimes that went against the morals and values of Mauritanian society and had been committed under the aegis of an organized structure with the purpose of causing disruptions and undermining public security. However, according to the source, there is no offence in the Criminal Code corresponding to the charge of large-scale cross-border crimes. In the same communiqué, the public prosecutor’s office asserted that the detainee had been arrested together with another suspect on the basis of a complaint by an army officer regarding invented events and the spreading of false statements.