Geneva, March 5, 2012 (SPS) - The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) has urged, in a report recently published in Geneva about the torture in Western Sahara, the Moroccan state “to take an urgent and concrete measures to put an end to the acts of violence and ill-treatment committed against the Saharawi prisoners and civilians.”
Madrid, March 4, 2012 (SPS) - The Special Committee of Saharawi cause of the Spanish Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) condemned Thursday, in a statement, the waves of brutal repression perpetuated against the Saharawi citizens in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
The statement condemned the latest arrests among the young Saharawis, who participated in peaceful demonstrations advocating the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people.
New York, March 4, 2012 (SPS) - A delegation representing the Saharawi women led by Secretary General of the Saharawi Woman Union, Ms. Fatma Mehdi, is taking part at the sixty-fifth ordinary session of the Commission on the Status of Women, held in the UN headquarters from March 1 to 9, 2012.
The session discusses several issues interesting women including the issues of peace, food security, environment and others.
Geneva, March02, and 2012 (SPS) - The International Publishers Association (IPA) Wednesday, urged Morocco to authorize the distribution of a book by Catherine Graciet and Eric Laurent entitled The Predator King (Le Roi prédateur) released in France yesterday.
The Spanish daily (El País) was banned in Morocco On Sunday February 26, because it included excerpts of the book, the predator king.
Shahid Alhafed, March01, 2012(SPS) Member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front and Prime Minister, AbdelKader Taleb Omar, Thursday in headquarters of the government received, a Spanish delegation from Castilla y Lion chaired by president of Municipal of Tamura , Rosa Baldion.
Shahid Alhafed, March1, 2012(SPS) President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Thursday, received a congratulatory message from President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, on occasion of the 36th anniversary of the proclamation of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)
Monte laJolie (France), March1, 2012 (SPS) the Saharawi community in France celebrated Wednesday in Mount laJolie(France) , the 36th anniversary of the proclamation of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in the presence of the Sahrawi human rights and former political prisoner, Mohamed Cheikh Elmoutawakil, according to a communiqué reached SPS.
Caracas, Mar 1, 2012(SPS). - On the occasion of the 36th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) , the Municipal Council of Caracas, in collaboration with the Saharawi Embassy and the Venezuelan Association of Friendship with the Sahara, organized, Wednesday, various events to commemorate this occasion, according to the SADR embassy in Caracas.