Biram Dah Abeid

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Biram Dah Abeid as 2014 presidential candidate

Biram Dah Abeid (* 1965 in Trarza , Mauritania ) is a Mauritanian politician and human rights activist. Abeid became known for his commitment to the victims of modern slavery . He was arrested several times for these actions.

Life

Biram Dah Abeid's parents were slaves. His father was released. In 1979 the boy entered high school in Rosso , Trarza . At the age of 19 he founded the National African Movement against the caste system, discrimination and slavery. At the age of 28 he ran for the first time in a district election. He completed his master's degree in history and was trained as a lawyer in Mauritania and Senegal .

In the early 2000s, Biram Dah Abeid joined SOS Slaves , a non-governmental organization to fight slavery. In 2007, Mauritania passed the Law on the Abolition of Slavery and former presidential candidate Zeine Ould Zeidane invited him to participate in politics. In the same year, Abeid succeeded in this function that for the first time in his country citizens came to court for slavery. The three women had kept girls as slaves and were the first people to be convicted.

In 2010 there was a break with the “National Commission for Human Rights” of Mauritania, of which he was the chief advisor. Abeid was repeatedly imprisoned for several public actions against slavery. In 2013 he was awarded the United Nations Human Rights Prize. In 2014 he ran for the IRA-Mauritania party (Initiative pour la Resurgence du mouvement Abolitioniste) as a presidential candidate, but was clearly defeated by the former member of the military junta, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz .

Abeid was most recently arrested at the end of 2014, along with other activists who campaigned for the indictment of a slave owner who repeatedly raped his 15-year-old slave. The young woman is free because of Abeid's party; he was sentenced on January 15, 2015 to two years in prison.

Abeid took part in the 2019 presidential election.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BBC of August 9, 2007 on the abolition of slavery in Mauritania , accessed August 16, 2015
  2. ↑ Reuters / Voice of America, January 15, 2015 on Abeid's conviction , accessed August 16, 2015
  3. ^ The Guardian, January 17, 2015, on the conviction of Abeid , accessed August 16, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Farewell, Biram Dah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mauritanian politician and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Trarza , Mauritania