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A leading anti-slavery campaigner in Mauritania said on Wednesday he would again run for president, one day after a Supreme Court decision freed him from 18 months in jail. stanley cup A leading anti-slavery campaigner in Mauritania said on Wednesday he would again run for president, one day after a Supreme Court decision freed him from 18 months in jail The decision reversed an appeals court judgment made in August which had upheld a two-year sentence for Biram Dah Abeid, the president of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement IRA , and his vice-president. Hundreds of supporters assembled in front of the Supreme Court with flags and posters with the faces of the campaigners. Liberty! Liberty! cried the demonstrators. Biram Dah Abeid, a 2013 recipient of the U.N. Human Rights Prize, was arrested in Nov. 2014 during an anti-slavery march and sentenced in January 2015 for belonging to an unrecognised organisation, organising and participating in an unauthorised protest and inciting trouble. Slavery is a crime against humanity in Mauritania and last year the government doubled prison terms against perpetrators, but the practice is still believed to affect between 4 and 20 percent of the population. When th stanley cup e Supreme Court decision was announced, a crowd marched to the prison to await the release of the campaigners before heading to Biram Dah Abeids stanley cup home about 10 km away. Biram Dah Abeid, who was the runner-up in the most recent presidential elections, s Itjf Video suggesting soldiers looted, attacked Nairobi mall angers Kenyans
New Zea jordan land and Belgium on Wednesday ratified the international convention banning the use and production of cluster bombs, bringing the UN convention two votes closer to becoming a binding international law. HT Image Representatives to the UN submitted the two countries ratification of the Cluster Munitions Disarmament Convention, taking the signatories to 26, four less than needed to become binding international law. It goes into effect six months after the 30th ratification, the international Cluster Munitions Coalition said on its Web site. The more states that commit to it the stronger the norm against cluster munitions will become, New Zealand s Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Georgina te Heuheu said in a statement. I urge all states that have not already done so to sign and ratify as soon as possible. Some of the world s top military powers, including the US, Russia and Ch airmax ina, and big users like Israel, India and Pakistan, have refused to take part, arguing cluster bombs have legitimate military uses. Cluster bomblets are packed by the hundreds into artillery shells, bombs or missiles, which scatter them over vast areas. Some fail to explode immediately. Unexploded bomblets can then lie dormant for years until they are disturbed, often by children attracted by their small size and adidas samba og bright colours. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across the world on to |
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