US: ICE is deporting Mauritanians back to modern-day slavery
From Freedom United The West African nation of Mauritania has tens of thousands of citizens trapped chattel slavery, with darker-skinned Mauritanians being treated as the property of their lighter-skinned Arab and Berber countrymen. It is for this reason that undocumented…
Can you help free Biram again?
By Joanna Ewart-James, From Freedom United Unbelievably, anti-slavery activist Biram Dah Abeid has been remanded in prison, arrested on the same day he was planning to submit his candidature for the upcoming Mauritanian elections.[1] Add your name to help free Biram!…
Mauritanian activists freed!
By Joanna Ewart-James, From Freedom United We’re celebrating! Mauritanian anti-slavery activists, Mr. Moussa Biram and Mr. Abdellahi Matallah Saleck, were released from prison last week after serving two years in a remote Saharan prison. Our partners, anti-slavery organisation IRA Mauritania…
Solidarity with Abdellahi and Moussa
From Freedom United Yesterday marked 365 long, brutal days since our friends Moussa Bilal Biram and Abdellahi Matalla Saleck were transferred to a remote and unsafe region of Mauritania – to a prison well-known for housing violent death row inmates…
