El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), February 21, 2014 (SPS) - Spanish national Juan Carlos Gomez, a student at Pablo de Olavide University, in solidarity with the Saharawi cause, was arrested and deported Tuesday from the occupied city of El Aaiun airport by Moroccan security forces.
Juan Carlos Gomez, who had planned to conduct a study on human rights, confirmed he was arrested for more than 20 hours and taken to a police station where he was interrogated and his laptop computer and passport were confiscated till he was deported on Wednesday morning to the Canary Islands after spending the night in a police station at the airport.
The decision to deport him was politically motivated because he planned to achieve a search on human rights in Western Sahara and Moroccan violations, particularly the disappeared Sahrawis and recent protests. (SPS)
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