Prosecutors request 20 years for Mauritanian anti-slavery activists

Nouakchott (AFP) - Prosecutors at a Mauritanian appeal court have requested 13 anti-slavery activists have their sentences increased to 20 years each for protesting against a forced slum clearance, a judicial source said. Defence lawyers for the activists from the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) had called this w ... Read Full Story