Campaigners say authorities in Mauritania are trying to crush the anti-slavery movement,in a country where 4% of the population are still enslavedProtestors marking the one-year anniversary of the conviction and imprisonment of Mauritania’s main anti-slavery activists are facing an increasingly violent clampdown by security forces, according to human rights groups. Biram Ould Abeid, and runner-up in the 2014 presidential elections and head of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA),and his assistant Brahim Bilal Ramdane, were jailed last January with two other activists for belonging to an illegal organisation and for violence against the police.
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Source: theguardian.com