Paris, June 17, 2017 (SPS) - The lawyers of Sahrawi activists, tried by the Court of Appeal of Rabat, denounced Thursday, in Paris, the Moroccan justice which has been exploited to settle political scores after six months of hearings marked by the absence of proofs.
Statement of the Saharawi government following the decision of the High Court of South Africa in the continuing detention of a cargo of phosphate rock for New Zealand from occupied Western Sahara
Statement by Ahmed Boukhari, Representative of the Frente POLISARIO to the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation-C24 13 June 2017 United Nations
Mr President,
On behalf of the Sahrawi people, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to address this important Committee where our country is still on its agenda as the last African colony.
Rabat, June 16, 2017 (SPS) - The appeal proceedings of the Sahrawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik group continued Thursday in Sale (Rabat) at a time when an international campaign is led to denounce the serious violations against the 24 political prisoners who are subject to an unfair trial.
The criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal of Sale resumed on June 5 the examination of the trial of these 24 political prisoners after four adjournments.
Pachuca, Mexico, June 15, 2017 (SPS) - The Mexican Ambassador to Mexico, Mr. Ahmed Moulay, received the highest honor from the Mayor of Pachuca, Mexico, Yolanda Thieria, in the presence of some of the authorities and staff of the municipality.
The visit of Sahrawi diplomat comes at the invitation of the mayor, with the aim of strengthening bilateral relations between the Saharawi Republic and the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, which is the capital of Pachuca.
Paris, June 15, 2017 (SPS) - The French organization ACAT asked the French president, Emanuel Macron, through a communiqué to include in his agenda in Morocco, the issue of Saharawi political prisoners, especially the group of Gdeim Izik.
The organization said that it had submitted multiple documents to international rapporteurs, denouncing the trial of Gdeim Izik's group, drawing attention to the fact that the evidence was based on statements obtained under torture.
New York, June 15, 2017 (SPS) - The UN Special Committee on Decolonization unanimously adopted two resolutions on the dissemination of information on Non-Self-Governing Territories.
The first project, "Information on Non-Self-Governing Territories", was presented by the president of the 24th Committee, the Venezuelan Rafael Ramírez. In this proposal, the document indicates the need for the administering power of the territories in question to periodically inform the Secretary-General of the UN on the economic and social situation of the territories.
Geneva, June 14, 2017 (SPS) - The Saharawi activist, formerly abducted by the Moroccan police forces, uncovered in Geneva the mistreatment suffered by Saharawi women by Moroccan security apparatuses in the Occupied Zones.
New York, June 14, 2017 (SPS) - The Frente POLISARIO invited the Decolonization Committee, through its representative in United Nations, Mr. Bujari Ahmed, to visit the territory to be able to know the reality on the ground, stating in the same time the POLISARIO's willingness to cooperate with all the missions they want to visit.
Bir Lahlou, June 13, 2017 (SPS) - The President of the Republic , Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Gali, on Sunday sent a message of condolence to the President of Namibia, HE Mr. Hage Geingob following the death Comrade Andimba Toivo ya Toivo.
Bir Lahlou, 12 June 2017 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, has congratulated his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the occasion of the National Day of the Russian Federation.
In his message, the President of the Republic expressed his warm congratulations and best wishes to his counterpart Vladimir Putin and to the Russian people, on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the independence of the Russian Federation.
Paris- The trial of the Sahrawi political prisoners, which resumed on June 5 in Rabat, has taken a worrying turn with the pleading of the civil parties which want to add the charges of domestic terrorism, said Monday the Association of Friendship with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (AFSADR).
The quashed trial of the Saharawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik group (24 defendants, 21 are still imprisoned for more than 6 years) resumed on June 5 at the Court of Appeal of Rabat-Sale in Morocco.
El-Aaiun (Occupied Territories), June 12, 2017 (SPS) - Moroccan occupying forces brutally dispersed protesters, who staged a peaceful demonstration in the occupied city of El-Aaiun on Saturday to express their solidarity with Sahrawi political prisoners and denounce the occupation policies in the region, said sources from El-Aaiun.
The brutal intervention left scores injured, some of them seriously injured were rushed to hospital, said the sources.
Bir-Lahlou (Liberated Territories), June 12, 2017 (SPS) - The Permanent Office of the Polisario Front's Secretary General has denounced the "illegal and immoral" practices marring the trial of the Saharawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik and "gross violations" against them.
In a statement released following a meeting that discussed, on Saturday, various issues relating to national and international topical events, the Office, denounced the "illegal and immoral" practices that marred the trial of the political prisoners of Gdeim Izik."
Shaheed El-Hafed, June 11, 2017 (SPS) – President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, chaired Saturday a meeting of the Permanent Bureau of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, addressed internal and external issues related to the national cause, focusing on the Intifada of Independence and the national programs planned during this summer, especially the youth and students program.
Brussels, June 11, 2017 (SPS) - Euro-MP Paloma Lopez warned the European Union of the consequences of the continued plundering of Western Sahara’s natural resources, calling it to take the necessary measures so that the member states, notably Spain, prevent this illegal exploitation in accordance with the international and European law.
Brussels, June 10, 2017 (SPS) - MEP Paloma Lopez denounced the "arbitrary" nature of the accusations and court proceedings that led to the 14-month prison sentence imposed on Sahrawi journalist Waleed Al Batal, urging the European Union (EU) Put pressure on the Moroccan authorities of occupation to obtain his release, as well as that of his father Salek Al Batal.
Smara (refugee camps), June 10, 2017 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali affirmed Thursday that the heroic resistance of the Saharawi people has forced the Moroccan occupier to adopt the policy of headlong rush by displaying intransigence, obstruction, escalation and threat of peace and stability in the region.
Madrid (Spain), June 07, 2017 (SPS) - More than a dozen of international observers attending Monday in Rabat the resumption of the trial of Saharawi Gdeim Izik's political prisoners denounced various irregularities.
The chairwoman of SOGAPS (Solidariedade Galega co Pobo Saharaui) group, Maite Isla, attending the hearing, denounced in a joint statement published on the website of her association the irregularities in the trial procedures.
Ljubljana (Slovenia), June 07, 2017 (SPS) - The Saharwi Coordinator with MINURSO, member of the National Secretariat, Mr. Emhamed Khaddad, held meetings with the leaders of several Slovenian political parties such as the ruling party group – the Middle Party, the Pensioners Party, the Socialist Party and the United Left Party.