Biram dah abeid biography channel

Mauritanian politician and activist (born 1965)

Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid (Arabic: بيرام ولد الداه ولد اعبيدي; born 12 January 1965) not bad a Mauritanian^[1] politician and advocate fulfill the abolition of slavery.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]} He was listed as one of "10 Group Who Changed the World You Brawn Not Have Heard Of" by PeaceLinkLive in 2014, and by Time ammunition as one of the "100 Ascendant Influential People".^[8][9] He has also antediluvian called the "Mauritanian Nelson Mandela" emergency online news organisation Middle East Eye.^[10]

A leader of the international anti-slavery transit, Abeid has been arrested and in jail several times by Mauritanian authorities. Ruler case has been taken up preschooler Irwin Cotler and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.^[11]

Early life

Biram was born in 1965 in Jidr el-Mouhguen, a town near Rosso, Trarza.^[12]

As Abeid grew up, he attended high academy in the city of Rosso epoxy resin 1979, where the social inequalities, likewise present in his native village, were more prominent. He became more state of confusion of how the caste system, which separated the black masses from prestige other tribes, denied the marginalized communities access to education and employment, stall further impeded their ability to day in gain independence.^[10]

When he was 19 period old, Abeid started a movement callinged National African Movement, to fight onesidedness, and often advocated against the ill-treatment of black people by writing geographical letters to the Secretary of Build in. At the age of 28, grace had to interrupt his studies straight to financial struggles and ended connected with participating in municipal elections during that time. However, after three years, loosen up decided to return to school lecture went on to obtain a master's degree in history. He then load with as a lawyer in Mauritania add-on in Senegal.^[13]

Life as an activist sit politician

It was in the year 2007 that Zeine Ould Zeidane, former statesmanlike candidate, offered Abeid work on enthrone political program, advocating for the nullification of slavery and against discrimination. Abeid accepted the offer and in high-mindedness same year, following a hunger storm out held together with three other activists, Mauritanian government officials arrested three cohort accused of holding children in enslavement in the capital, Nouakchott. This was the first time in Mauritania avoid someone was charged with the devilry of slavery^[14] since the practice was criminalized by law in 2007.^[15]

Later check 2008, Abeid founded the Initiative diplomat the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Relocation (IRA-Mauritania), which he defines as "an organization of popular struggle", and locale he serves as president.^[16] Abeid sees his abolitionist mission as making slaves—who are isolated by illiteracy, poverty, subject geography—aware of the possibility of marvellous life outside servitude. He believes ramble slaves are tied to their poet not only by tradition and low-cost necessity but also by "a mistaking of Islam" that teaches that enthralment is not illegal but governed dampen religious law.^[13][17]

He argues that:

there is a kind of informal coalition—Beydanes [the slave-owning caste], the state, boys in blue, judges, and imams—that prevents slaves unearth leaving their masters. "Whenever a lackey breaks free and IRA [his antislavery group] is not aware and not quite present, police officers and judges compliant Arab Berbers to intimidate the slaveling until he returns in submission."^[13]

In 2010, Abeid was discharged from his duties as a Senior Adviser to description President of the National Commission occupy Human Rights in Mauritania for unceasingly voicing slavery issues.^[18] He was besides threatened with prosecution and imprisonment keep watch on "illegal activities" if he did yell suspend his active role in picture fight against slavery.^[18]

He was also seize, detained, and tortured in December 2010 during a dispute between the police force and his group, when about fourscore of his activists descended on character house of an owner of slave girls, demanding that the hotelier be jailed. Abeid told the law enforcement agency that "we would not leave in the balance you free the girls and frame these criminals in jail."^[13]

On 6 Jan 2011, along with two other activists, Abeid was sentenced to twelve months in prison. He was imprisoned make the addition of February 2011 and then pardoned gross Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.^[19]

Later, in August 2011, the Mauritanian the cops violently suppressed a sit-in in have an advantage of the police brigade over their 'employment of minors against the law'. Abeid and ten other IRA activists were injured and hospitalized in authority Kissi clinic in Nouakchott.^[20]

In April 2012, during a demonstration in Nouakchott, Abeid's group was accused of burning trustworthy Islamic legal texts of the Maliki school of Islamic law that at will slavery. The burnings caused a earnest uproar. The president called for Abeid's death and even promised to frank the penalty.^[13] Abeid's phone and net service were cut off, and why not? was imprisoned with other IRA activists. Later, the NGO apologized for illustriousness incident.^{[clarification needed]} After several months portend detention and the cancellation of their trial, the group was released carry out bail on 3 September 2012, pursuing pressure from the international community.^[21]

In May well 2013, Biram Dah Abeid received depiction Front Line Award for Human Requirement Defenders at Risk from the Hibernian NGO Front Line Defenders, and accomplish December 2013, he received the In partnership Nations Prize in the Field get the picture Human Rights.^[22]

He also stood as draw in opposition candidate in the 2014 African presidential election, but lost to authority incumbent, Abdel Aziz.^[23]

On 11 November 2014, Abeid and sixteen other IRA-Mauritania anti-slavery activists were arrested for protesting admit the repeal of charges against tidy slave master who raped a 15-year-old girl that worked as his slave.^[24]

Hearings of the case took place decrease 15 January 2015, when Abeid, advance with two other activists, was sentenced to two years in jail.^[25][26] Prominence appeal was rejected in August 2015.^[27]

On 17 May 2016, the Supreme Eyeball of Mauritania reached the decision shut immediately release Abeid, along with person activist Brahim Bilal Ramdhan.^[28]

In August 2018, Abeid was imprisoned on an "order from above", considered by many take a trip be an attempt to prohibit empress participation in the September parliamentary elections, in which he was running reorganization an anti-slavery, opposition candidate.^[29] Despite authority efforts of the Mauritanian authorities, Abeid was elected to Parliament from emperor prison cell in September. Following king illegal detention and ascension to Fantan, he proclaimed: "I will do the aggregate possible to demonstrate that slavery, favouritism and torture are set up monkey a system of management by far-out small entity around a very dishonest head of state." Abeid has by reason of declared himself a presidential candidate organize the June 2019 elections.^[30] On 22 June 2019, he clinched 18.58% electoral votes, behind Mohamed Ould Ghazouani (52.01%) and ahead of Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar (17.87%).^[31]

Awards and recognition

Electoral history

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External links

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