Mauritania: Anti-Slavery Groups Say Face Growing Threat in Mauritania

Dakar — Anti-slavery activists in Mauritania are increasingly being arrested and protests banned as the state tightens restrictions on human rights groups, activists and organisations said on Thursday.

Slavery is a historical practice in Mauritania, which became the last country worldwide to legally abolish it in 1981.

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