Jailed Mauritanian slavery activists announce hunger strike

[WorldNews]

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Three jailed Mauritanian anti-slavery activists went on hunger strike Monday to protest their treatment by prison authorities, their campaign group said in a statement. Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid, the runner-up in 2014 presidential elections, is serving two years in the central Aleg prison, along with aide Bilal Ramdane and Djiby Sow, a civic and cultural rights campaigner.

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