Mauritania's supreme court on Tuesday ordered two anti-slavery activists, one of them a former presidential candidate, to be set free after downgrading the crimes they were convicted for in January 2015. "The Mauritanian supreme court ordered that Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid and Brahim Ould Bilal be freed," their lawyer Brahim Ould Ebetty told AFP. Ould Abeid, runner-up in the 2014 presidential elections and leader of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania, was sentenced to two years in jail along with Ould Abetty for a public order offence and belonging to a non-authorised organisation.
