source: Local Source
actor1: Government of Mauritania (2009-2019)
actor2: Civilians (Mauritania)
location: Nouakchott
notes: Arrests: On 6 August, opposition figure and leader of the IRA movement, Biram Ould Dah Ouled Abeid has been arrested, one week after Mohamad Ould Cheikh, a journalist and University of Qatar media professor, had been arrested. No reasons for arrests have been given but Ould Abed was due to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections on 1 September.