URGENT ACTION : Mauritania: Anti-slavery activists arbitrarily arrested: DES MILITANTS ANTIESCLAVAGISTES ARRÊTÉS ARBITRAIREMENT Biram Dah Abeid, Abdellahi el Housein Mesoud (AmnestyInternational)
Two members of the anti-slavery organization Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) were arbitrarily arrested on 7 August in Nouakchott, west Mauritania. Biram Dah Abeid, IRA president and candidate to the September parliamentarian elections, and Abdellahi el Housein Mesoud have been charged and denied access to legal …