Posts Tagged ‘Kaédi’
March 19, 2013
On 9 March 2013, police severely beat a number of human rights defenders and members of the
Initiative pour la Résurgence du Mouvement Abolitionniste en Mauritanie – IRA (Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement) in Southern Mauritania. Nine of the human rights defenders were arbitrarily arrested and remain in detention in Kaédi police station. (IRA is an organisation which works to eradicate slavery in Mauritania. It has members and supporters in various regions of the country.)
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Tags: abolition, freedom of assembly, Front Line Defenders, Human rights defender, Human Rights Defenders, illegal detention, Initiative pour la Résurgence du Mouvement Abolitionniste en Mauritanie, IRA, islamic fundamentalists, judicial harassment, Kaédi, Mauritania, slavery
On 9 March 2013, police severely beat a number of human rights defenders and members of the Initiative pour la Résurgence du Mouvement Abolitionniste en Mauritanie – IRA (Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement) in Southern Mauritania. Nine of the human rights defenders were arbitrarily arrested and remain in detention in Kaédi police station. (IRA is an organisation which works to eradicate slavery in Mauritania. It has members and supporters in various regions of the country.) Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 