Madrid (Spain), 9 April 2016 (SPS) - The General Council of the Spanish Lawyers Association has protested against arrest and expulsion, by Moroccan authorities on Thursday, of eight international human rights observers, including five Spaniards.
The association, in a statement, has called on Moroccan government to allow "human rights observers to fulfill their mission and to ensure prisoners' right to a fair trial."
It noted that those lawyers went to Morocco to enquire about the legal situation of 13 convicts from the Gdeim Izik group.

Daily News/Tanzania
08 April 2016
Makwaia Wa Kuhenga
WHEN we reflect on liberation struggles against colonialism in Africa, we see that colonial powers have never been inside Africa, but have come outside the continent. In East Africa, an erstwhile colonial power was Britain as much as France was in West Africa.

Algiers, 8 April 2016 (SPS) - General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA) Called Friday on the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to urge the United Nations to implement its resolutions relating to Western Sahara issue and maintain the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), by extending its mandate to human right monitoring.

Copenhagen (Denmark) 8 April 2016 - The Danish Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee questioned recently the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Kristian Jensen about the poor conditions of prisons in Western Sahara.
 
The former UN rapporteur deplores human rights situation in Western Sahara jails.
 
Former chair of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Mads Andenæs, calls the human rights situation in Western Sahara 'very depressing'.
 

Madrid, April 07, 2016 (SPS) - A Spanish parliamentary group of support to the Sahrawi cause was created Wednesday following a meeting held in the parliament, said Thursday the representative of the Polisario Front to Spain Jira Bulahi.

 
Chahid Al-Hafed (Saharawi refugee camps), April 07, 2016 (SPS) -The Prime Minister of the Saharwi Republic, Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar, chairs today  a government meeting to discuss the latest developments of national issue at domestic and international level in the headquarter of the Government in Chahid El Hafid.
¨the meeting will review several points regarding our cause at the international and national level especially, the plan of alert and the situation of the Sahrawi political prisoners¨. NS member Ahmed Mahmud statement to national media

Madrid,07 avr 2016(SPS) - Un groupe de députés espagnols soutenant la cause sahraouie a été constitué mercredi soir suite à une réunion tenue au parlement, a-t-on appris jeudi auprès de la représentante du Front Polisario en Espagne, Mm.Khira Bulahi.

Addis Ababa, April 07, 2016 (SPS) -The Special Envoy of the African Union (AU) to Western Sahara, Mr. Joaquim Chissano, "called on African countries to adopt a united and firm position against the Moroccan intransigence to liberate Western Sahara from colonialism.

New York, April 07, 2016  (SPS) - "The United Nations Security Council will hold a session tomorrow on Western Sahara at the request of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Uruguay, in the light of recent events," according to Polisario Front representative at the UN, Mr. Bukhari Ahmed.
Mr. Bukhari said that this session "also comes on the eve of the submitting of the report of the Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, on the conflict in Western Sahara, which is expected by the middle of this month."

Copenhagen ( Denmark), 07 April 2016 (SPS) - Within the framework of the International Campaign demanding the unconditional free release of the Saharawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik, who have been on hunger strike recently for more than one month and to condemn their judgment in Moroccan Military Court.