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For Immediate Release: January 7, 2019 Press Contact: Lynn Tramonte, ltramonte@ohioimmigrant.org / 202-255-0551 Federal Workers Struggle Without Pay, While ICE Charters a $148,000 Plane to Deport Men to Torture and Abuse in Mauritania This is an Obscene and Immoral Use of Government Money Link: http://bit.ly/ShutDownPlane Florence, AZ – Federal workers may not be […] Oct. 16th 2018 IRA – USA stands in solidarity with Mauritanians beaten and imprisoned for their defense of human rights. We support the renewed petition hosted by Freedom Now that calls for the release of Biram Dah Abeid from prison and for an end to the police harassment of human rights defenders.
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[…] Former Mauritanians are now subject to deportation by the current presidential administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. IRA – USA supports the asylum applications of all persecuted Mauritanians. These individuals have fled from state-sponsored racial violence, slavery, and arbitrary deprivation of citizenship. IRA – USA joins the Ohio Immigrant Alliance and the immigration attorneys […] 
The Unrepresented Peoples’ Organization (UNPO) worked with the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress to organize a briefing on Slavery in the Sahel. This event on July 24, 2018 featured Alice Bullard, human rights attorney in Washington DC, Biram Dah Abeid, president of IRA – Mauritanie, Maurice Middleberg, Executive Director of Free […] 
Today IRA – USA announces a new direction for its organization. IRA – USA has long worked in alliance with Biram Dah Abeid’s organization, IRA – Mauritanie. Together we have worked to free those held in slavery in Mauritania, to empower ex-slaves, to counter the state-racism in Mauritania, and to promote gender equality. The recent […] 
On March 28th 2018, the special slavery court Nouadhibou, Mauritania sentenced father and son slave owners to 20 years in prison. In the same case, a woman slave owner received a 10 year year sentence. The men, Saleck Ould Amar and his son Hamoudi Ould Saleck, must also pay a fine of 500.000 MRU. […] 
Our campaign on behalf of Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir finally succeeded. He had been sentenced to death for a blog post that was denounced as blasphemous. This already was a horrible situation, because the point of his blog post was to protest the use of Islam as the basis for caste-based discrimination. Mkhaitir comes […] 
The Real News network focuses on the long struggle to end slavery in Mauritania and all the many activists who have pushed forward toward emancipation. Watch their news video here. 
“Mauritanie : « Je paie au prix de ma liberté la lutte pacifique contre l’esclavage » Le militant Moussa Biram écrit une lettre d’une prison du désert mauritanien où il est en détention depuis cinq cents jours avec Abdallahi Mattalah. […] 
Mohammed Mkhaitir’s appeal of his death sentence for blasphemy was successful! The Court of Appeals has reduced his penalty to two years imprisonment. Mkhaitir has been in prison since January 2014, so he should be released for time served. Here is the press report from Mauritania: Mauritanie : 2 ans de prison pour le blogueur […] 
On November 8, 2017 Mohammed Ould Mkhaitir again appealed his death sentence. In January 2014 Mkhaitir was sentenced to death for blasphemy because he wrote a short blog protesting the use of religion as a rationale for racist caste-based discrimination. Since then, imams have led huge street protests calling for Mkhaitir’s death. Our campaign for […] 
Two French human rights researchers — a journalist and a human rights advocate — were expelled from Mauritania on May 2, 2017. Marie Foray and Tiphanie Gosse had been invited to Mauritania by the Association Mauritanienne pour les Droits de l’Homme (AMDH). Fatimata M’Baye, the President of AMDH, expressed her surprise and embarrassment regarding the […] |
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