REPORT: Morocco’s Repression in the Western Sahara is Increasing: Almost 700 Arrested in 2006.   GfBV reported on Monday, Jan. 22, 2007 on a considerable increase in the violations of human rights in the areas of the West Sahara controlled by Morocco.
The human rights organization showed in a report the arrest of 685 Saharauis in 2006 — 
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21/01/2007 – Denunciation of Moroccan human rights violations in Western Sahara in the World Social Forum     (Special Envoy)    Nairobi, (SPS)   The second day of the 7th World Social Forum, held in Nairobi from the 20 to the 25 January, was marked by an energetic condemnation of the flagrant Moroccan human rights violations   Continue reading →

Mon Dec 4, 8:19 AM ET  MADRID (AFP) – More than 200 people from the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara have asked Spain for political asylum after reaching the Canary Islands in small boats.
The Sahrawis are young people who in the previous 18 months took part in demonstrations demanding the independence of the Western Sahara and say they fled repression by Morocco’s security forces, the Spanish daily El Pais reported Monday.
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