Chahid Al hafed (refugee camps), Feb 19, 2015 (SPS) - Secretary General of Saharawi Women Union (UNMS) has clarified that holding 2015 session of the Crans Montana Forum will be contrary to the rights and interests of the Saharawi people, adding it will be “tantamount” to rewarding Morocco for its unabated human right violations against the Saharawis.
Berne (Switzerland), Feb 19, 2015 (SPS) - The Swiss Federal Councillor Foreign Affairs, Mr. Didier Burkhalter, said his country will not take part in the Crans Montana Forum, to be held in the occupied Saharawi city of Dajla, clarifying Switzerland’s position on Western Sahara issue.
Paris, Feb 18, 2018 (SPS) - The Platform for Solidarity with the Saharawi People in France has asked French President Francois Hollande to support the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination, which can only be realized through a referendum consistent with the values of the French Republic and international law.
Algiers, Feb 18, 2015 (SPS) - Personal Envoy of UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, is expected Wednesday in Algiers, as part of his regional tour, which began last Saturday, said Algeria Foreign Ministry in a statement.
This new tour which ends on 23 February and is the fifth of its kind since Ross’s appointment in 2009, is part of the UN efforts to revive the settlement process of Western Sahara question, said the source.
El Aaiun (occupied territories), Feb 18, 2015 (SPS) - Moroccan occupying forces have kidnapped the Sahrawi minor boy, Brahim Mraikl, on the ground of his participation in a peaceful demonstration, stated the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA).
According to the source, the minor boy was beaten and verbally insulted by Moroccan policemen.
In his testimony, Mraikl noted that he was injured at several parts of his body, specifically his left hand, shoulder and the mouth. (SPS)
Tiznit (Morocco), Feb 18, 2015 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoener, Abdellahi Boukyud, on Wednesday started an open hunger strike in protest to the physical assault and verbal abuse he experienced inside the Moroccan Prison of Tiznit, said a source of the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Communities Abroad.
Boukyud was arbitrarily arrested in the city of Guleimim, southern Morocco in 2013. He is now serving a 4-year prison term.
El Aaiun (occupied territories), Feb 18, 2015 (SPS) - The Saharawi female citizen, Lalla Al-Mosawi, has lost her 5-month baby after being subject to torture at the hand of Moroccan occupying police, said right sources.
“She (Lalla) had underwent medical examinations after she found thrown outside the city limits. She was kidnapped by policemen in a civil car, before threatened to be raped,” stated Ghali Sweyah, housband of the victim.
Sale (Morocco), Feb 18, 2015 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoners incarcerated in Moroccan Sale Jail, known as Gdeim Izik detainees, have urged the Security Council to pressurize the Moroccan state to establish a UN mechanism to protect human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
Bir Lehlou (liberated zones), Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz on Tuesday offered his condolences to the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mrs. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, over the terrorist attacks that took place in Copenhagen on Sunday, February 15th.
Bir Lehlou (liberated zones), Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente Polisario, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, on Tuesday sent a condolence message to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over the terrorist act that killed 21 Egyptian nationals living in Libya.
In the message, President Mohamed Abdelaziz condemned this act, seizing this difficult time to express solidarity with the people of Egypt and with relatives of the victims.
Algiers, Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente Polisario Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz on Tuesday received at Djenane El Mithak, the official residence of the President of Algeria and his official guests, the Algerian Prime Minister, Mr. Abdelamek Sellal.
The meeting was also attended by Mr. Ramtane Lamamra, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria.
El Aaiun (occupied territories), Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - Moroccan occupying court on Monday delayed, for the third time in a raw, until next Monday the trial of the Saharawi political prisoner, Abdeljaleg Al-Markhi.
Al-Markhi, on hunger strike, is now serving a 4-year jail sentence.
He was arrested on the ground of his human rights activism and his participation in various demonstrations calling for the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence. (SPS)
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Valencia (Spain), Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - The Socialist International Mediterranean Committee has decided, at the end of its meeting convened on 13-14 February 2015 in Valencia (Spain), to send a mission to Western Sahara next May.
This mission will be headed by Antonio Yáñez, former diplomat from the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE).
London, Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - The UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Mr. Tobias Ellwood, has reaffirmed his country’s support to the UN-led efforts to find a durable a mutually acceptable political solution, ensuring the right to self-determination for the Saharawi people.
Mr. Ellwood said the ministry is consistently discussing the issue of human rights in Western Sahara when meeting with its counterparts in the world, lastly of which was in New York last January.
Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, on Monday called on the United Nations to put pressure on the Moroccan regime to create the necessary conditions to organize a referendum on self-determination in Western Sahara.
Stockholm, February 16, 2015 (SPS) – Swedish foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, has reaffirmed that Sweden is opposed to the exploitation of Western Sahara’s natural resources by Morocco.
Windhoek, February 16, 2015 (SPS) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Namibia, Ms. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has reaffirmed his country's support for the just struggle of the Saharawi people for freedom and independence during his reception to the SADR ambassador, Malainin Sadik, said a statement of the Saharawi Embassy in Namibia.
Shaheed Elhafed (Refugee Camps), February 16, 2015 (SPS) -President of the Saharawi delegation to the negotiations Khatri Addouh hold Sunday "the United Nations responsible for ending the tragedy of the Saharawi people", represented by the Secretary General, his Personal Envoy and the Security Council.
Bern (Switzerland), February 15, 2015 (SPS) - A delegation of the Frente POLISARIO led by Omar Mansur, a member of the National Secretariat of the Frente POLISARIO, the representative in France, and Omema Mahmoud, Frente POLISARIO representative in Switzerland, participated Saturday in the preparatory Congress of the Swiss Socialist Party for the upcoming elections in Switzerland.
According to a press release of the representation in Switzerland, the delegation held meetings on the sidelines of the conference with different personalities of the party.
Smara (Occupied Territories), February 15, 2015 (SPS) – Sahrawi demonstrators were “violently” attacked by Moroccan occupation forces, following a sit-in that they organized in Tantan neighborhood in the occupied city of Smara, according to the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Community Abroad.
The Moroccan police forces used various repressive tools against the demonstrators, injuring some of them with varying degrees of severity, at least two of which were transferred to hospital.