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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.

Bir Lelhou (liberated zones), July 4, 2014 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front has sent a letter of congratulation to the President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of independence and youth day, to be celebrated tomorrow.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), July 4, 2014 (SPS) - The preparatory committee for the 2nd congress of the Saharawi Students Union (UESARIO) held Thursday at the prime ministry headquarters its first meeting.


Chaired by the President of the Republic Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, the meeting was attended by Mr. Salem Lebsir, head of the POLISARIO National Secretariat’s Political Organization, Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar, prime minister, Ahmed Lehbib, secretary general of UESARIO, as well as members of the government and national secretariat.

Mexico City, July 3, 2014 (SPS) - The Socialist International Women has agreed to organize an exploratory visit to Western Sahara, promising, at the conclusion of its Council’s meeting held in Mexico City, to set the date of the visit in the near future, said a source close to the Saharawi delegation.
 

The decision made after a request by the Saharawi delegation, inviting SI to visit the territory of Western Sahara, in the aim to assess at first hand the reality of the Saharawi people.
 

Bir Lehlou (liberated territories), July 2, 2014 (SPS) - Saharawi government and Polisario Front have condemned Morocco’s impassiveness vis-à-vis the resolutions of the African Union and United Nations, drawing international community that Rabat practices is similar to those of Apartheid regime in South Africa.
 

Copenhagen, July 2, 2014 (SPS) - Four Danish municipalities, Gladsaxe, Herlev, Rudersdal and Gentofte, have decided not to use the road salt imported from occupied Western Sahara by Danish company Dansk Vejsalt A/S, according to Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW).


During the last year the Danish NGO, Afrika Kontakt has several times, and without luck, tried to get Dansk Vejsalt to stop the import of this salt.

Mexico City, July 2, 2014 (SPS) - Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) Mr. Gwede Mantashe has asked the Socialist International Women to contribute in supporting the Saharawi cause, voicing his party’s support.


In an intervention on Tuesday before the Council meeting of the Socialist International, convened in Mexico City, Mr. Mantashe called on SI to make more efforts in order to contribute to the achievement of peace in Western Sahara and in other places of the world.

Geneva, July 2, 2014 (SPS) - Maputo Conference on Mine Ban has welcomed SADR initiative to present voluntary reports on the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and on their Destruction, said Monday a statement issued by Polisario Front’s office in Geneva.
 

Mexico, July 1, 2014 (SPS) - A delegation of the Polisario Front takes part at a meeting of the Council of the Socialist International Women, which began Monday in Mexico, in the presence of delegations representing 60 countries.
 

The Saharawi delegation consisted of Ms. Fatima Al-Mahdi, secretary general of the Saharawi Women Union, and Ahmed Moulay Ali, charge d'affaires of SADR Embassy in Mexico.