El Aaiun (occupied territories), Oct 31, 2011 (SPS) - The Moroccan occupation authorities prevented Sunday around 02: 30 am the European MP, Mr. Willy Meyer, and the Spanish lawyer, José Pérez Ventura, from entering to the Saharawi occupied city of El Aaiun.
According to a testomony of the Saharawi activist, Ms. Aminatou Haidar, Moroccan police prevented the two spaniards to step down from the plane amid tight siege surrounding the airport by the Moroccan intelligence, adding that Willy Meyer has been subjected to physical and oral assault.
Mr. Willy Meyer was born on August 1952 in Madrid. He is an European deputy from the United Left party and vice-president of European Foreign Affairs Committee.
José Pérez Ventura is a member of the United Left, Spanish lawyer and member of International Associations of Jurists for Western Sahara. He is working along with a group of lawyers to defend the Saharawi people right and to follow the political trails of the Saharawi civilians in the Saharawi occupied, south of Morocco and other Moroccan cities.
The Moroccan authorities previously prevented on middle of November 2010 the European deputy, Willy Meyer, along with Spanish journalists from entering to the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, to probe the Moroccan military attack on the Saharawi civilians in Gdeim Izik camps. (SPS)
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