Mauritania: Arrests of opposition leader, anti-slavery activist and two journalists point to worrying pre-election crackdown (Amnesty International)
Authorities in Mauritania must immediately put an end to the wave of arrests of journalists, opposition figures and anti-slavery activists in an apparent pre-election crackdown on dissent, Amnesty International said today. The president of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) and former presidential candidate Biram Dah …