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Statement: Saharawi Centre for Information and Communication (CESIC)
Wednesday, 22 May Information is a tool to identify the struggle of oppressed peoples and groups all over the world. It is both a tool to defend their rights and a strategy to disseminate the values of democracy, justice and fundamental freedoms. Information role is recently based on social networks which enlarge the space for
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The Moroccan occupying authorities stage a “counter-demonstration” of settlers during the visit of a delegation from the Council of Europe to the territory
Thursday, 23 May Yesterday, 22 May, the Moroccan occupying authorities in the capital of occupied Western Sahara, El Aaiún, staged a “counter-demonstration” using Moroccan settlers, starting at “Almchor” square, which coincided with the visit of a delegation from the Council of Europe to the territory. According to local information sources, in the Moroccan “counter-demonstration” participated
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The Moroccan authorities prevent Saharawi students from celebrating the 40th anniversary of the launching of the armed struggle for the Independence of Western Sahara
Monday, 20 May On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the launching of the armed struggle for Western Sahara’s Independence, today, Monday, 20 May, the Saharawi students of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of Agadir University organized a demonstration to celebrate this historic date for the Saharawi people. A few hours before the demonstration
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FRANCE-MOROCCO, THE FRIENDSHIP OF SHAME
WESTERN SAHARA FRANCE-MOROCCO, THE FRIENDSHIP OF SHAME Morocco intensifies its colonization and discrimination policy towards the Saharawi people that started 38 years ago. Its method: violence. Its guarantee: France’s complicit silence. Violent repression of peaceful demonstrations, torture, unfair trials are all violations of human rights that are often targeted against the Sahrawi people who have
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First journalist expelled after the Security Council ´s Resolution
Sunday, May 12, 2013 The Moroccan occupying authorities expelled an italian journalist from the occupied city of El Aaiún after his arrival at 22:00h on a plane coming from Rome via Casablanca. Without giving the journalist any explanation of their decision, the Moroccan occupying authorities took him to El Aaiún ´s taxi station, and transported
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Administration of toxic chemical substance kills a Saharawi political prisoner in Salé 1 prison Thursday, 23 May Family members of the Saharawi citizen Abdul Malik Abdul Samad confirm that he was given an injection with a toxic substance in Salé 1 prison, which gave rise to complications and to a rapid deterioration in his state of health. The prisoner was then taken away to Ait Melloul prison. The state
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Brutal repression on the 40th anniversary of the start of the Saharawi armed struggle: Provisional list of victims of the Moroccan occupying forces on 22 May Thursday, 23 May Yesterday, Wednesday, May 22, around 5 p.m. local time, the Moroccan occupying forces intervened violently to disperse several Saharawi peaceful demonstrations held in different neighbourhoods and streets of the capital of occupied Western Sahara, El Aaiún, which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the start of the armed struggle for the independence of
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The wall of shame undermines the transmission of the Saharawi culture (UN Independent Expert) Wednesday, 22 May The Human Rights Council’s Independent Expert in the field of cultural rights warns that the Moroccan wall in Western Sahara undermines the transmission of the Saharawi culture. The wall built by Morocco to divide Western Sahara does not only allow the occupying Power to exploit phosphate and fishing but also endangers the
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Violent attack by the Moroccan police against a former Saharawi political prisoner at the time of the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of the armed struggle Tuesday, 21 May On Monday, 20 May, the Moroccan police has violently intervened to disperse a peaceful demonstration to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the launching of the armed struggle for Western Sahara’s Independence, in the city of Tan Tan, south of Morocco. The Saharawi activist and former political prisoner Salam Charafi was injured and transferred
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The United Nations denounces that anti-personnel land mines jeopardize Saharawi traditional cultural style of living: the Independent Expert reports Morocco’s unwillingness to demine Monday, 20 May The Moroccan anti-personnel land mines are not only a threat to life and physical integrity but also to the Saharawi culture. In the report that WSHRW makes exclusively public, the Independent Expert of the Human Rights Council, Farida Shaheed, denounces Morocco’s refusal to demine in Western Sahara. The UN Independent Expert expressed
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According to the UN, Morocco does not teach the Saharawi culture and history in the occupied territory Saturday, 18 May Morocco does not only violate the civil, political and social rights of the Saharawi people. It also massively violates their cultural rights. This is revealed in an important UN report. The United Nations Human Rights Council commissioned the Independent Expert in the field of cultural rights, Farida Shaheed, to visit occupied Western Sahara
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