After having accepted to enable the return of Aminatou to her occupied territory this night, but as soon as she reached the plane, the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, received another order saying that they can not fly.
Amid emotional scenes Nobel Peace prize nominee, Aminatou Haidar, ended her hunger strike in Lanzarote this evening and flew back to Western Sahara claiming a victory over the Moroccan authorities who had expelled her.
The South African Ministry for Foreign Affairs issued an official statement Today considering that “human rights violations in Western Sahara stem from the non-realisation of the right to self-determination for the people of Western Sahara.”
Polisario Front’s representative in the UN, Ahmed Boukhari, alarmed the President of the Security Council, Mr. Thomas Mayr-Harting, about the latest Moroccan escalation of repression in occupied Western Sahara.
Mothers of 15 young Saharawi victims of disappearance called on UN SG, Ban Ki-moon, to intervene so as to help shade the light on the fate of their sons abducted by Moroccan colonial authorities in Western Sahara.
Americans for Justice in the Western Sahara (AJWS) called Today on Hilary Clinton and Samuel Kaplan to intervene vis-à-vis Morocco to ensure the protection of the life of Aminatou Haidar and the respect of her human and political rights.
Human Rights Watch issued a press release, yesterday, denouncing Morocco’s restrictions and harassments against international journalists and Saharawi human rights activists.
