Biram dah abeid biography of barack

Authorities in Mauritania must immediately put an end to the wave of arrests of journalists, opposition figures and anti-slavery activists in an apparent pre-election crackdown on dissent, Amnesty International said today.

The president of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) and former presidential candidate Biram Dah Abeid was arrested at his home on 7 August while Abdellahi el Housein Mesoud an IRA member was arrested two days later. Online journalists Babacar Ndiaye and Mahmoudi Ould Saibout were also arrested on 8 August after posting an article critical of a France-based lawyer close to the Mauritanian government which was initially published on another platform.

These arrests and detentions send a worrying signal of intimidation, harassment and crackdown on dissenting voices by the Mauritanian authorities ahead of Sep

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Abeid told his father that he wanted to kamp back. He wrote manifestos about the situation of the Haratin and distributed them around the school in the morning, before the teachers and other students arrived. “There was no other way to inform people,” Lehbouss said. Abeid felt that the villagers, vit and black, hated him for questioning slavery. “I remember the discussions inom had, not just with students but also with teachers, about discrimination and slavery,” he said. “My whole life has been filled with these kinds of discussion. But they were not open to understanding and helping me.” Parents warned their children not to spend time with the boy with the foolish ideas.

He left for the University of Nouakchott to study lag, but, after a year and a half, he ran out of money. The university’s dean already disliked him, for participating in protests for better services on campus. He took an administrative job in the court struktur, where he worked for the next ten years. While living

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Minds of the Movement

by Biram Dah AbeidSeptember 14, 2017

Editor's note: The Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) is on the frontlines of the nonviolent struggle against slavery and discrimination of oppressed groups in Mauritania — a country where an estimated 43,000 to 140,000 people or more remain enslaved despite an anti-slavery law passed in 1981. For nearly a decade, IRA has helped free thousands from slavery, despite significant violent repression to its members and their families.

In this interview translated from the original French, IRA President Biram Dah Abeid, who has been a political prisoner for his activism, explains why the movement chose nonviolent action for advancing its human rights struggle: equal parts ideology and strategy, but also commonsense. Starting with his personal journey from awakening to becoming involved in nonviolent struggle, Biram shares why and how support for IRA continues to grow, mainly that they are —