A court in Mauritania has sentenced two slave owners to between 10 and 20 years in jail. Human rights activists have celebrated the ruling, which they say is the harshest anti-slavery decision in the country's history.
The two cases were brought by former slaves in the northwestern town of Nouadhibou, activists said Friday.
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