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Moroccan security forces continue crackdown on Western Sahara civil society and international observers

08 / 04 / 2010 | Newsletter

Thursday, April 8, 2010, around 17:00, Mr. Sidi Mohamed Daddach was returning from Smara in a taxi, accompanied by Mr. Rafael Antorrena, an international observer. They were search at the checkpoint at the entrance of El Aaiun and assaulted by hundreds of Moroccan settlers. They did not get out of the car and remained there, locked inside for 45 minutes, under shouts, spitting and insults. The settlers kicked the car, then pulled off the plates. The driver intervened to say he was Moroccan and had nothing to do with his passengers. The settlers then attached Moroccan flags on the back of the car.

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Moroccan police attack Sahrawi delegation with aid of loyalist mob

07 / 04 / 2010 | Newsletter

Tuesday evening, upon their returning to El Aaiun, Western Sahara, a Sahrawi delegation led by Mr. Sidi Mohamed Daddach, along with a number of Sahrawi citizens and human rights defenders, were injured to varying degrees by the violent intervention of Moroccan police supported by a crowd of Moroccan settlers.

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Western Saharan hunger strikers in Morocco meet with human rights body

20 / 03 / 2010 | Newsletter

On the second day of their unlimited hunger strike, the Saharawi human rights defenders held in Morocco’s Salé prison since October, met with a delegation of Moroccan lawyers representing the Moroccan Organization of Human Rights (OMDH) led by its President, Mrs. Amina Bouayach.

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New mass grave found in Moroccan occupied Western Sahara

11 / 03 / 2010 | Newsletter

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 | Newsletter

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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Moroccan police brutally disperse self-determination protest in Western Sahara

10 / 03 / 2010 | Newsletter

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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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 | Newsletter

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

08 / 02 / 2010 | Newsletter

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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Ahmed Mahmoud Haddi (El Kainan) appears in court

29 / 01 / 2010 | Newsletter, 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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Degja Lachgar provisionally released from Moroccan prison

28 / 01 / 2010 | Newsletter, Political Prisoners

Today, 28 January, around noon, ASVDH has learned of the liberation of its colleague, Degja Lachgar, imprisoned in Salé, Morocco, with six other human rights defenders.

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