Mauritanian slavery threat areas despite the passage of a law criminalized under

BY :GANDY A SHARAR
AL-GAYBEH BINT SULTAN , TU3A BENT HAMEDA ,TEDMAT BENT HAMEDA ,TEDMAT BENT OSMAN .. The names and addresses of prominent of the tragedy of slavery in Mauritania, not knowing when the infiltration of slavery because it was born deprived of their freedom and successors either his grandfather. All they know here rerlatives no longer prepared to accept the reality of slavery and exploitation by the Morse family decades ago, but since that knew their way to life .

AL-GAYBEH attaches great hopes on the developments campaign last few months, especially the ones relating to the law to prohibit and criminalize slavery passed by the parliament recently Mauritanian

Believes that the complaint made in the past few days and presented to the capital Nouakchott to galvanize and activated, will be heeded this time, and doors open, unlike previous times

al-galya Says (almost 50 years) and that it incurred عثاء long travel to the capital from rural villages "al manhar" near "alrakes' province, which lies on the capital, more than 300 kilometers, in order to file against the named Mohamed Ould Ahmed door accusing him insisting to continue slavery and exploitation a number of her family members. citing those suffering what happened with her relative توعه daughter Hamida said that the men forced her - when she worked at his house gratis-on sexual exploitation under the pretext of being a nation, as it promised to enter paradise that is Driven to, and those whose password long, and the outcome-by-al-gaybes"s child is not known to the same father, and refuses men joining him pleading that he had one pair of nation friends

It adds that "tao3a" married after that and I have got four sons, but Ould Ahmed door again decided to bring here to work at home, but her husband refused to new this time is what eventually led to divorce him. The suffering of the family does not end at that point for the truth, it asked man himself once from her family to move to the neighborhood and refused to supply pressures began as a request from a family that had been working then one of their daughters to renounce the described his nation, which has responded family eventually

Pressure did not stop there but overtaken the quest for divorce their daughter called "tedmat" daughter from her husband Osman Abdullah Ould Saleck under the pretext of being a nation, not replace him enter without authorization. Fueled rejection husband, but Ould Ahmed door was able to convince the husband and father that the marriage the nation is inappropriate and harmful to the reputation of socially family, which made the husband and father is in the open hunger strike that responded daughter ultimately to divorce his wife

The status of the family mentioned is not alone in Mauritania, according to human rights organizations, prompting Mauritanian Parliament to the recent ratification of the law criminalizing slavery for the first time in Mauritania, and penalties collected from fines and imprisonment of up to ten years for the perpetrators of the crime of enslavement

Salem believes one of the relatives of al-gaybeh"s that the status of captured will be a test case for a strong new law, as the first case of slavery and exploitation brought to the courts after approval. The Organization of the rescue slaves led by the former slave Massoud Ould Boubacar, and the General Mauritanian Human Rights led by lawyer Fatima had demanded Mbay two days before the formation of an independent commission of inquiry is investigating the scope of practice of slavery in Mauritania. they also demanded the introduction of Foundation also concerned with solving problems of slaves and enable victims to resort to it if necessary, prefering to that would allow to get rid actual slavery-like practices Although legally abolished slavery in Mauritania three times, the human rights organizations and a number of the anti-slavery still emphasizes quality and more widely, especially in rural and remote areas