Mauritanian immigrants in Ohio face deportations home, where abuses persist
by Stephen Starr in Lockland, Ohio from US news | The Guardian on (#72BTM)
A growing group has found community around Cincinnati. Trump's ICE crackdown threatens to send them back to Mauritania, rife with human rights issues
Musician Khalidou Sy recalls the night his concert was shut down before he was taken away by the Mauritanian police and jailed for five days.
While he was never given a reason for his detention, in his show Sy criticized the lack of electricity available to the Mauritanian public and called on the authorities to make a change.
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