Mauritania: Criticizing governance – a risky business

On Mauritania’s Independence Day, FIDH and its member organisation, AMDH, released a report detailing numerous human rights violations including the systematic repression of popular protest shaking the country since 2011. These events raise concerns about the re-emergence of an authoritarian regime in Mauritania. Our organisations call upon Mauritanian authorities to organise pluralistic, free and fair elections as soon as possible, whilst ensuring respect for fundamental freedoms in order to ease the extremely tense political and social context prevailing Mauritania.