Algiers, July 13, 2014 (SPS) - The "offensive" remarks made by a member of Moroccan government against Algeria constitute an "abuse" and denote a "nervousness that ill befits the relations between the two brother and neighbouring countries," the spokesman of the ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdelaziz Benali Cherif,said Saturday.
Madrid, July 11, 2014 (SPS) - Amnesty International (AI) has asked the new king of Spain, Felipe VI, in a letter addressed during his official visit to Morocco, scheduled for July 14 and 15, questions related to the protection of human rights in that country, said the Spanish electronic journal "elEconomista".
Birlehlu July 12, 2014 (SPS) - Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould salek refuted the Moroccan Foreign Minister’s allegations that the task of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara is to maintain the cease-fire during his recent speech before the foreign committee in the Moroccan parliament , in a statement Friday.
Seville (Spain), July 11, 2014 (SPS) - A peace demonstration was recently held in the city of Seville (Spain), under the slogan "Andalusia asks Morocco to release Saharawi political prisoners and ensure freedom and independence for the Western Sahara".
Rome, July 10, 2014 (SPS) - Member of the Italian Senate Mr. Stefano Vaccari has called on the government of his country to contribute in permitting the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination and independence, emphasizing the need to respect human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
Las Palmas (Canary Islands, Spain), July 10, 2014 (SPS) - Speaker of the Saharawi National Council (Parliament) Mr. Khatri Addouh met yesterday, Wednesday, with the President of the Regional Government of the Canary Islands, Mr. Paulino Rivero.
During the meeting, Mr. Addouh, also head of the Polisario Front’s delegation to the negotiations with Morocco, conveyed Saharawi President’s sincere greetings to Mr. Rivero.
Seville (Andalusia), July 9, 2014 (SPS) - The 19th edition of March for Peace in Western Sahara was held Saturday at Encarnación Square in Seville, Andalusia, to call for the independence of Western Sahara and release of Saharawi political prisoners languishing in Moroccan jails.
New York, July 9, 2014 (SPS) - The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Moroccan authorities to drop the charges against the Saharawi journalist and blogger Mahmud El-Haissan.
“Journalists should never be subject to retaliation for coverage of sensitive topics,” said Sherif Mansour, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program coordinator, in a statement issued Tuesday, calling on the Moroccan authorities to “immediately” release the Saharawi journalist Mahmud El-Haissan.
Copenhagen, July 9, 2014 (SPS) - Spokesman of the Red-Green Alliance Party in the Danish Parliament, MP Christian Juhl, has expressed “profound worry” for tens of Saharawi activists, journalists and protestors having detained by Moroccan authorities without a court order following peaceful protests calling for the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, held on 30th June 2014 in El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara.
Geneva, July 9, 2014 (SPS) - Secretary General of the Union of Youth of Sagia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro (UJSARIO) Mr. Zain Mohamed Sid Ahmed underlined in Geneva that the situation of the Saharawi young people in the occupied territories and the Sahrawi refugee camps is “alarming.”
Bir Lehlou (liberated territories), July 8, 2014 (SPS) - Polisario Front has condemned the arrest of the Saharawi journalist and blogger, Mahmud El-Haissan, describing the move as an attempt to silence the Saharawi people and deprive them of their basic rights, in a territory under UN responsibility, whose people still waiting to exercise their right to self-determination.
Shaheed Hafed, July 7, 2014 (SPS) - As a sign of French solidarity with the Saharawi people, an action to boycott Azura brand tomatoes originated from Western Sahara and not from Morocco as indicated on the label, was launched at Auchan stores in Bagnolet to alert the French public about the seriousness of plundering of the natural resources of Western Sahara by Morocco.
El Aaiun (Occupied Trritories) , July 7, 2014 (SPS) - Moroccan authorities arrested Sahrawi journalist Mahmoud Al Haissane and put him on remand in the Lakhal prison, pending his trial on 21 July 2014, qccording to a source from the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Community.
“The Sahrawi journalist was arrested last Friday for having revealed Morocco’s human rights violations and the plundering of Western Sahara’s natural resources,” added the same source.
Shaheed Hafed, July 6, 2014 (SPS) - The union of Saharawi Journalists and Writers (UPES in Spanish) condemned "forcefully" the arrest on Friday of Saharawi journalist and TVRASD correspondent Mahmoud Lhaisan by the Moroccan police in the occupied city of El Aaiun, in a statement.
It described the arrest as "unfair and unacceptable" and held the Moroccan authorities responsible for the consequences that may result.
London, July 6, 2014 (SPS) - Adala UK, Justice & Human Rights for Western Sahara, has called for an action against arbitrary detention following a large peaceful demonstration in the occupied city of El Aiun, Western Sahara, in a statement on its website.
Adala UK confirmed that dozens of activists, demonstrators and journalists have been detained without arrest warrants following peaceful demonstrations on 30th June 2014 in El Aiun. Many more are at risk of arbitrary detention.
London, July 6, 2014 (SPS) - Three days before he was detained, Mohmod Lhaisan delivered a live report on RASDTV (Saharawi television) which showed the excessive violence used by the Moroccan authorities against peaceable Saharawi demonstrators.
Mexico, July 5, 2014 (SPS) - The Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) reiterated its support to the Sahrawi people and their just cause.
Under-Secretary of PRI’s international issues, Elsa Espinosa who received a Sahrawi delegation made up , among others, of the General Secretary of Sahrawi Women Union Fatma El-Mehdi and Charge d’Affaires at the Sahrawi embassy in Mexico Ahmed Moulay, reiterated her party’s support to “the Sahrawi people’s struggle for freedom and independence.”
Shaheed Hafed (Refugee Camp)- Sahrawi President, Mohamed Abdelaziz affirmed that the Sahrawi cause has being "strongly" present on the international and continental front.
Mexico, July 5, 2014 (SPS) - General Secretary of the National Union of Saharawi Women (NUSW), member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, Ms. Fatma Mehdi, received on Wednesday along with SADR Ambassador in Mexico Moulay Ahmed, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico.
The Saharawi delegation was received by the Director General for Africa and the Middle East at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, María Carmen Oñate Muñoz, counselor and coordinator of policy analysis, Amparo Angujano, and other MFA staff and officials.
El Aaiun (occupied territories), July 4, 2014 (SPS) - The Saharawi journalist Mahmud El-Haissan, member of the Sahrawi TV (TV-RASD) team in occupied El Aaiun, arrested today, Friday, by Moroccan occupying police, said a right source from the city.