SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

El Aaiun (occupied capital of SADR), 24/07/2005 (SPS) Moroccan colonial authorities expelled, this Sunday from El Aaiun’s airport, an 8 international delegation, composed of parliamentarians and representatives of the civil society besides two journalists from Canary Islands, reported SPS’s correspondent on the ground.

Composed of 6 persons, the delegation was forbidden from getting off the plane, of Binter Company in Las Palmas, which brought them from Las Palmas to the capital of Western Sahara.

A 7th delegation, from the Basque, was expelled from El Aaiun, in July the 13th, after the failure of an hour negotiations with Moroccan colonial authorities inside the plane they came in from Las Palmas to the capital of Western Sahara occupied capital, it should be recalled.
 
Composed of about thirty representatives of Basque autonomous Government, Parliament, local elected, representatives of Mayoralties and human rights activists as well as journalists, the delegation was planning to investigate on the human rights’ situation, which is largely violated since the starting of the intifada of independence last May the 21s in Western Sahara

A 6th delegation, composed of parliamentarians and representatives of the civil society of Aragon, was not allowed by Moroccan authorities to visit the occupied capital of Western Sahara, El Aaiun in July the 7th. It was planning to investigate on the human rights situation widely abused by Moroccan colonial forces, reported Spanish Press agencies.

Last July the 5th another 5th delegation, this time from Norway, chaired by the President of the RAFTO Foundation, Arne Lynngård, and composed of 4 other members, is about to be expelled from the occupied Capital of Western Sahara, El Aaiun, by the Moroccan authorities of occupation, their translator, Saharawi human rights activist, Latif Allal was arrested, tortured for hours before been released the next day.

In June the 26th, a 4th delegation, composed of Andalusan parliamentarians and representatives of civil society was expulsed Sunday from the El Aaiun’s airport by the Moroccan colonial authorities, who denied it the entry to the territory.

"It seems that they have something to hide", a local official from Madrid said, who was one of the members of a delegation composed of parliamentarians from Madrid Moroccan authorities expulsed last June the 5th (the 1st delegation).

A second delegation composed of Catalonian Parliament members basically was expelled to Canary Islands last June the 8, the members of the delegation were not allowed to get off their plane, while another delegation from Asturias was expulsed last June the 19th (3rd delegation),it should be recalled.

Since the 21st of May, violent confrontations between Moroccan forces of repression and Saharawi people, who were claiming for the respect of human rights and their rights to self-determination and independence.

The confrontations resulted in dozens injured people, prisoners and disappeared in El Aaiun, Smara, Boujador, Dajla (Western Sahara) or in Rabat, Marrakech, Agadir, Casablanca (Morocco), it should be recalled. (SPS)

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