By: thinkSPAIN, Your English Spanish Website, Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Spain’s first Oscar-winning actor, Javier Bardem (photo,  is leading a campaign to restore peace and freedom to those living in the Western Sahara, who have spent the last 33 years in refugee camps after the Franco regime handed over sovereignty to Morocco and Mauritania.

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Appeal for release of Brahim Sabbar and all Saharawi political prisoners

Today the Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA) wrote to Mr Chakib Benmoussa, Moroccan Minister of the Interior asking for the release of Saharawi political detainees, held in Moroccan prisons. Brahim Sabbar is the secretary general of ASVDH, the Saharawi Association for victims of violations of human rights for Saharawis living under Moroccan rule and has been in prison since June 2006 (see: http://asvdh.net/english/?page_id=316).
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Reuters. 25 April 2008
RABAT, April 25 (Reuters) – Morocco on Friday expelled four French human rights campaigners who it accused of trying to help independence activists in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, drawing condemnation from Amnesty International.
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Morocco / Western Sahara:  Allegations of torture of Sahrawi human rights defender must be investigated

Amnesty International deplores today’s expulsion by the Moroccan authorities of a delegation of Action by Christians against Torture (Action des chrétiens pour l’abolition de la torture, ACAT) as another setback against human rights defenders working on Western Sahara. Continue reading →

The videos show peaceful demonstrations in favour of independence for Western Sahara and scenes on campus at night along with interviews with victims of these recent attacks.

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A supposed sign of benevolence, but also a reminder of the ridiculous civil rights restrictions that remain in Morocco:

Eight Moroccan rights activists jailed for chanting anti-monarchy slogans during Labour Day demonstrations last year were set free on Friday after receiving a royal pardon, the government said.
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The Moroccan authorities in El Aaiun/ Western Sahara violate CODESA right to hold its Constitutive conference.
As soon as the Preparing committee has finished the financial and moral preparations for the organisation of the Constitutive Conference of the Collective of the Saharawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA), which was planed to take place on Sunday 07 October 2007,
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The CODESA Secretariat,
El Aaiun, Western Sahara., August 08, 2007.

A Detailed Report on the Violations of Human Rights Perpetrated by the Moroccan state in the Western Sahara and against the Sahrawi Citizens in Morocco since the passing of the UN 1754 Resolution  in April 2007
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Green Left Weekly
International News, issue #716, 4 July 2007.
Secretary general of the Saharawi Union of Journalists and Writers (UPES) Malainin Lakhal, currently on a speaking tour of Australia, spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Tony Iltis about the human rights situation in Western Sahara.
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The testimony of Fatma Aayache
The Saharawi human rights activist, the ex-kidnapped and member of the ‘Colectif Sahraoui des Defenseur des Droits de l’Homme’ (CODESA).
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