Two Salafists detained at Nouakchott central jail for five years, Béchir Khrachi Sall and Sidi Ouls Samoury, have been freed after serving their sentences. Authorities said Canadian national Aaron Yoon, who was arrested in December 2011 and jailed in Mauritania on terrorism charges, will be freed. He is said to have traveled to the region with two Canadians jihadists who were killed in the attack on the In Amenas gas facility by Mokhtar Belmokhtar’s Signed in Blood Battalion. Yoon has alleged he was tortured while in jail.
