|
||||||
We have received multiple reports of seventeen arrests in a town near Rosso, Mauritania. Fourteen women and three men have been jailed because they asserted their property rights over land seized during the 1989 ethnic cleansing. These women and men were forced out of Mauritania during the violence of 1989. Repatriated to Mauritania in a […] 
April 27th was the anniversary of the “Burning of the Books.” This is the day that Biram Dah Abeid publicly burned several Malikite legal texts because they contain legal interpretations that uphold and elaborate on slavery. IRA Mauritanie held a commemoration of this bold action on the part of Biram. The public book burning lead […] 
Brahim Jiddou, Yacoub Inalla, and Sabar Houssein were sentenced on March 19, 2015 for their protests in October of 2014 against a sermon by the imam of the Saudi Grand Mosque of Nouakchott. Their arrest was precipitated by the Mufti’s attack ob Biram Dah Abeid, including calling for the murder of Biram and denouncing the […] 
We received news today that the prisoners in Aleg have begun a hunger strike to protest the conditions of their internment. Biram Dah Abeid, Brahim Bilal Ramdane and Djiby Sow were sentenced on January 15, 2015 to two years imprisonment for participating in a peaceful anti-slavery protest. They are in a very dangerous prison in […] Rosso, Mauritania: Biram Dah Abeid in court today denied assaulting Islam and national unity. Biram was the only defendant to testify in the session that started at three in the afternoon and lasted until six. Mr. Abeid rejected all the charges against himself and his fellow members of IRA – Mauritanie, including charges of belonging […] |
||||||
|
Copyright © 2024 Initiative for the Resurgent Abolition Movement - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||||
