Mauritania: Risking Liberty in the Fight Against Slavery (FreedomUnited)
Biram Dah Abeid was abruptly woken by police at 5:30AM, dragged from to a squalid, windowless prison cell in Mauritania. Yet he wasn’t surprised — the day of his arrest coincided with the electoral commission’s deadline for candidates to register in the national elections. Since Abeid, president of the Initiative for …