9 Saharawis are injured after Moroccan police stopped a Saharawi demonstration against the plundering of Western Sahara’s fisheries resources this week, according to the Committee against torture in Dakhla.
The King of Morocco, Mohamed VI, did not attend the Union for the Mediterranean summit in Paris because of supposed commitments at home, Moroccan officials said on Sunday.
President Mohamed Abdelaziz, drew the attention of the summit of the founding countries of the Union for the Mediterranean to "the threats to peace and security" represented by the colonisation of Western Sahara.
Three Saharawi prisoners of conscience were release last Saturday after they served two years imprisonment in the notorious Carcel Negra (Black Jail) in the occupied city of El Aaiun
The EU is about to grant a so-called ‘advanced status’ for Morocco . The move will be made now under the French presidency. “No one seems to mind that Morocco is an illegal occupying power violating the most fundamental human rights”..
The United Kingdom expressed support to the UN’s supervision of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara "if this can strengthen the confidence building measures" between the two parties to the conflict..
“A Republic in exile", is a documentary film on the situation of the Saharawi refugee camps that was played Wednesday evening in Paris, at a moment when the Saharawi cause is gaining more and more known in France
