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New mass grave found in Moroccan occupied Western Sahara

11 / 03 / 2010 | Information-Update

ASVDH has learned of a new mass grave likely containing Western Saharans was discovered in the area of Boucraâ, east of the city of El Aaiun, Western Sahara, according to corroborating sources.

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Moroccan police detain, abuse young Sahrawi woman and young child

11 / 03 / 2010 | Information-Update

Moroccan police unlawfully detained Ngaya El-Haouassi, a Saharawi student, on a street in El-Aaiun yesterday, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. They forced her into a patrol car and headed towards the outskirts of the city. There they subjected her to questioning about her involvement in the events in the city of El-Aaiun, Tuesday and Wednesday.

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US State Department: 2009 Human Rights Report: Western Sahara

11 / 03 / 2010 | Reports

There were credible reports that security forces sometimes engaged in torture, beatings, and other mistreatment of detainees. Although the CCDH reported that security forces engaged in serious abuses such as these less frequently than in previous years, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI) and local NGOs continued to report abuse, especially of Sahrawi independence advocates.

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Moroccan police brutally disperse self-determination protest in Western Sahara

10 / 03 / 2010 | Information-Update

Yesterday twenty Sahrawi citizens were injured during a violent intervention by Moroccan police to disperse a peaceful demonstration on the main street of the Maatallah quarter in El-Aaiun, Western Sahara.

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El-Aaiun 9 March 2010 : New Photos

09 / 03 / 2010 | Images and Video

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Morocco allows 12 Western Sahara rights activists to visit Tindouf while six linger in prison awaiting charges for making the same trip last year

08 / 03 / 2010 | Information-Update

Today around 11.35 GMT eight Sahrawi human rights defenders arrived at the Mohammed V airport in Casablanca. The militants had visited the Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf, southwest Algeria. Contrary to what happened to seven Sahrawi human rights activists in October 8, these Sahrawi activists have fortunately not been subjected to ill treatment, detention and charges of treason by Moroccan authorities.

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Amnesty to EU: Don’t forget human rights in Western Sahara

05 / 03 / 2010 | Solidarity-Support

In a letter to the Spanish EU presidency, Amnesty International is urging for the inclusion of a specific human rights item on the agenda for the first EU-Morocco summit in Grenada on 7 March. Amnesty International wants that EU leaders at the summit to address the growing intolerance of Sahrawi human rights defenders and others in Morocco who are favouring the self-determination of Western Sahara.

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Western Saharan rights activist, Hassanna Duihi, taken from hotel room by secret Moroccan police

08 / 02 / 2010 | Information-Update

ASVDH has learned that the human rights activist Mr Hassanna Duihi has been abducted Monday from his hotel room in Tiznit by ten Moroccan plainclothes police officers. In a declaration from the lawyer Mrs Dolores Travieso, Mr Hassanna was accompanying her and the lawyer Julio Vega from El Aiun to Tiznit yesterday, Sunday, for the upcoming trial of ten Western Saharan political prisoners set for today, 8 February 2010. She added that their rooms were in the same hallway.

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HRW: Human rights conditions deteriorated overall in 2009 in Morocco

29 / 01 / 2010 | Reports

Human rights conditions deteriorated overall in 2009 in Morocco, although the country continued to have a lively civil society and independent press. The government, aided by complaisant courts, used repressive legislation to punish and imprison peaceful opponents, especially those who violate taboos against criticizing the king or the monarchy, questioning the ‘Moroccanness’ of Western Sahara, or ‘denigrating’ Islam.

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Ahmed Mahmoud Haddi (El Kainan) appears in court

29 / 01 / 2010 | Information-Update, Political Prisoners

Ahmed Mahmoud Haddi (El Kainan), a Sahrawi human rights defender and political prisoner, appeared Thursday, January 28, 2010, before the Moroccan investigating judge of the Court of Appeal in Rabat for a second time, dealing with his arrest in November in Casablanca. The charges come under common and criminal law.

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