Abdallahi Matallah Saleck (Arabic: عبد الله مط الله سيك), also spelled as Abdellahi Matalla Saleck, is a Mauritanian human rights activist and anti-slavery campaigner who rose to prominence as a member of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement.
Saleck was a member of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), which campaigned against racism, slavery and gender oppression in Mauritania.
[5] On 29 June 2016 Matallah Saleck, alongside fellow anti-slavery activist Moussa Biram, were arrested after taking part in a protest against the forced eviction of Haratin people in the Gazra Bouamoutou shanty town in Nouakchott.
[6][5] On 28 June 2018, Amnesty International called on the African Union not to ignore Mauritania's human rights record during its Heads of State Summit held in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott.
They specifically called on the President of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, to release Matallah Saleck and Biram, raising concerns that the men had been tortured whilst in detention, and that the charges against them had been trumped up due to their prominent anti-slavery activism.