Mauritania: Gov't under fire to release anti-slavery activists

Sixteen national and international organisations are calling for the release of the 13 Mauritanian anti-slavery activists arrested early July.

The activists had been charged earlier last month for violence against public authorities after organising a riot to protest the displacement of the Haratin ethnic group, many of whom are former slaves- from an area they have occupied for decades.

Mauritanian authorities claim that a dozen police officers had been injured while a bus was burnt as a…
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