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Human rights in Western Sahara: CNDH’s president severely questioned at European parliament

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Brussels (Belgium), November 22, 2014 (SPS) - European deputies questioned Thursday the president of Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH) on the situation of human rights in the Sahrawi territories, occupied by Morocco, said a European source in Brussels.

 

Speaking before the members of the Subcommittee on Human Rights at the European Parliament, CNDH’s president Driss El Yazami was “severely” questioned by European deputies on the human rights’ “calamitous situation” in the Sahrawi occupied territories, said the source. 

 

The “bloody tragedy” of Gdeim Izik in 2010, death of Sahrawi activist Hassan al Wali under torture and the isolation of prisoners of conscience were among the grievances mentioned by the European deputies.

 

Moreover, the closing of the access to the Sahrawi occupied territories to parliamentarians and journalists, the continued denials and restrictions to the freedom of association, expression and meeting for the Sahrawi citizens in favour of self-determination were among the facts on which the European deputies relied to launch a series of “vehement questioning” on the highly deteriorated situation and repeated human rights violations in the Sahrawi occupied territories. (SPS)

 

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