HRW: EU-funded crackdown drove torture, expulsions in Mauritania

A new Human Rights Watch investigation details years of torture, rape, and collective expulsions by Mauritanian security forces, practices intensified by European funding and migration outsourcing deals.

Mauritanian security forces have perpetrated widespread human rights abuses, including torture, rape, and collective expulsions, against West and Central African migrants from 2020 to early 2025, according to a major new report from…