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.
See full article http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/716/37167

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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RABAT, May 25 (Reuters) – Moroccan police have beaten and imprisoned dozens of Western Sahara independence activists demonstrating on university campuses in recent weeks, rights campaigners said on Friday.
More than 25 students remain in prison after a wave of arrests that began on May 7 in the tourist town of Agadir in southern Morocco.
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AFAPREDESA   The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared
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[Marrakech 09.05.07] We organized a sit-in of solidarity with the Sahrawi students at IBNO ZOHR University in Agadir, who were victims of savage attacks. Then we organized a march from the Faculty of Law, passing by the Faculty of Letters, towards the campus of Alqady Ayad University in Marrakech. Continue reading →

Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH) Statement, El-Ayoune, on May 10, 2007 
Following the bloody events, which occurred recently at the university IBNO ZOHR of Agadir, and which resulted in tens of wounded in a very worrying situation and the arrest of five Sahrawi students, after an attack of some chauvinistic and racist Moroccan students against Sahrawi students, demonstrations of protest and solidarity…..
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Geneva/Tifariti, 1 March 2007 – On 27 February, the Polisario Front’s mine action team destroyed 3,321 antipersonnel mines in Tifariti, Western Sahara. This is the Polisario Front’s second stockpile destruction since it signed the Geneva Call “Deed of Commitment for Adherence to a Total Ban on Antipersonnel Mines and for Cooperation in Mine Action” in November 2005.
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March 6, 2007  Western Sahara – US Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices  – 2006   Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
US state department reports are important for anyone the least bit sceptical about the usual reports we have from the Saharawi side, as it confirms everything they say about the repression.
Read report:  http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL  Public Statement  AI Index:      MDE 29/004/2007    (Public)
News Service No:   046   8 March 2007Morocco/Western Sahara: 
Amnesty International is seriously concerned about the sentencing on 6 March of two Sahrawi human rights defenders, Brahim Sabbar and Ahmed Sbai, to one year in prison by a court in Laayoune.
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AI Index: MDE 29/003/2007  (Public) News Service No:024
Morocco/Western Sahara: Stop the judicial harassment of Sahrawi human rights defenders
On the eve of the trial in Laayoune of Sahrawi human rights defenders Brahim Sabbar and Ahmed Sbai,  Amnesty International fears that the two men are being subjected to judicial harassment on account of their work as human rights defenders
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