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Moroccan forces intervene violently against Sahrawi demonstrators on International Human Rights Day

SPS 11/12/2016 - 14:42

EL-Aaiun (Occupied Territories), December 11, 2016 (SPS) - The Moroccan occupation forces on Saturday evening intervened violently against Sahrawi demonstrators in the occupied city of EL-Aaiun, after responding to an appeal launched by the Coordination of Human Rights Activists in Western Sahara for demonstrations to commemorate the International Day of Human Rights on December 10.

Referral of young Sahrawi Saeed Ayoub to prison in occupied city of El Aaiun

SPS 02/12/2016 - 18:17

El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), Dec. 2, 2016 (SPS) – The investigating judge of the court of appeal in the occupied city of El Aaiun referred Tuesday young Sahrawi Saeed Ayoub, 18, to the local prison in the city, after he was arrested on Sunday along with other young Sahrawi Mohamed Bouamoud, who was released hours after the arbitrary arrest.

CONASADH condemns repression and torture committed against women in occupied territories of Western Sahara

SPS 27/11/2016 - 18:04

Shaheed El Hafed, 27 Nov 2016 (SPS) The Saharawi National Committee of Human Rights (CONASADH) condemned all forms of repression and torture committed against Sahrawi women in the occupied territories of Western Sahara by the Moroccan repressive forces of occupation.

Sahrawi political prisoner Yahya Mohamed El-Hafed transferred to hospital

SPS 19/11/2016 - 14:04

Taroudant (Morocco) November 19, 2016 (SPS) - The Moroccan agricultural prison in  the Moroccan city of Taroudant transfered Thursday Sahrawi human rights defender and political prisoner Yahya Mohamed El-Hafed Izza to the regional hospital in the city, indicated Sahrawi human rights source.

RSF calls on Morocco to end reporting restrictions in Western Sahara

SPS 05/11/2016 - 11:30

Paris, Nov. 5, 2016 (SPS) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday called on the Moroccan authorities to end all restrictions on reporting freedom in Western Sahara, under Moroccan occupation, and "stop violating the rights of Sahrawi and foreign journalists to cover developments in the territory.

Families of Gdeim Izik prisoners denounce expulsion of French activist Claude Mangin

SPS 23/10/2016 - 11:18

El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), October 23, 2016 (SPS) – The Committee of Gdeim Izik Prisoners Families condemned Saturday the expulsion of French activist Claude Mangin by Moroccan authorities, in a statement. 

The Committee expressed its full support to the wife of Sahrawi political prisoner Naama Asfari, human rights activist Claude Mangin.

Moroccan forces intervene violently against Sahrawi demonstrators

SPS 23/10/2016 - 10:33

El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), October 23, 2016 (SPS) – The Moroccan forces intervened violently against Sahrawi demonstrators who took Saturday evening to Smara Street in the occupied city of El Aaiun, coincided with the visit of the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous in the city, indicated a statement of the Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Diaspora.

Moroccan forces suppress peaceful sit-in in Smara

SPS 22/10/2016 - 15:33

Smara (occupied territories), October 22, 2016 (SPS) - The Moroccan forces of repression intervened brutally against a peaceful sit-in organized Friday by unemployed Saharawi graduates in the occupied city of Smara.

During the sit-in, unemployed Saharawi graduates chanted slogans denouncing the illegal plunder of natural resources of Western Sahara by Morocco and demanding their rights to work and enjoying the natural wealth of their country.

Sahrawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik exposed to reprehension

SPS 03/10/2016 - 10:45

Rabat (Morocco), October 3, 2016 (SPS) - The prison management of Alargat in the Moroccan city of Salé has molested and beat the Sahrawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik, using a special military contingent belongs to what is called the General Directorate of Prisons.

Gdeim Izik prisoners wage warning hunger strike

SPS 10/09/2016 - 17:32

Rabat (Morocco) September 10, 2016 (SPS) - Sahrawi political prisoners, Gdeim Izik group, started Friday a warning hunger strike at the local prison of Alargat for 48 hours, according to Sahrawi human rights source.

This strike comes to denounce the harassment they have suffered since their deportation, on 31 August, from the local prison of Salé 1 to the local prison of Alargat in the outskirts of Salé, near the Moroccan capital Rabat.

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