Canary Islands (Spain), 16 November 2025 (SPS) – The island of Fuerteventura in the Canary archipelago witnessed on Saturday the organization of a protest and solidarity gathering marking the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Tripartite Madrid Agreement.
The demonstration was initiated by the Sahrawi Community Association in Fuerteventura and the Canary Friendship Association “Sahara Fuerte,” and was held in front of the Spanish government’s headquarters on the island.
The occasion served as an opportunity to denounce the Madrid Agreement and to call for the end of the Moroccan occupation of the territory of the Sahrawi Republic.
Participants also urged Spain to assume its historical, political, and moral responsibilities toward the Sahrawi people and the decolonization of Western Sahara, as it remains, legally, the administering power of the territory.
Participants raised slogans demanding the independence of the Sahrawi people and the withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation, while also expressing their rejection of attempts by Morocco and its supporting countries to include in the latest UN Security Council resolution the proposal of the so-called autonomy plan under Moroccan sovereignty.
They further appealed to the United Nations and the international community to pressure Morocco to respect international legality and implement UN resolutions that call for organizing a free and fair referendum guaranteeing the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination.
The demonstrators condemned the human rights violations suffered by Sahrawi citizens in the occupied cities and demanded the release of all Sahrawi civilian prisoners in Moroccan jails, foremost among them the Gdeim Izik group.
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