A 46-year-old Liberian man, Marco Gibson, shows his swollen knee in January 2025, which he said was injured in a beating in December 2024 by Mauritanian army officers near Mauritania’s northern border. Gibson said he had entered Mauritania irregularly to transit to Morocco. “We were over 40 [migrants]…The military captured us… Some beat us with sticks… others used…a rubber whip.” The military transferred him to police detention; after two weeks, police expelled him with over 20 other African migrants to Mauritania’s border with Mali. “We never went through any legal process,” Gibson said.
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