Jailed for refusing to abandon their land

Oumar Dia, Abdoulaye Aliou, Aliou Dia and Thièrno Amadou have been jailed in Dar El Barka because they refused to sign documents renouncing ownership of their ancestral lands.

They were working on the land on November 7, which was recently irrigated, when heavily armed police came to arrest them.

Four other peasant landowners were arrested […]