http://www.spsrasd.info/en - May 18, 2013 10:18:00 AM - Jan 19, 2012 6:09:29 AM
Cairo, May 18, 2013 (SPS) - Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) said that Western Sahara has remained an open arena for wide-range violations by Morocco against political and human rights activists of the Western Sahara, who call for the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination, highlighting that Saharawi rights activists continued to face arbitrary arrest, physical attacks and unfair trials.
Berlin, May 18, 2013 (SPS) - Mr. Mhamed Khadad, member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front and coordinator with MINURSO, has made a working visit to Germany in the period between May 14 and 17, where he met officials at German Foreign Ministry and some political forces, according to a Saharawi official source.
Murcia (Spain), May 18, 2013 (SPS) - The General Coordinator of Spanish United Left Party Mr. Cayo Lara affirmed his party’s position of support to the right of Saharawi people to freedom and independence, disapproving the positions of successive Spanish governments, wether right-wing or socialist, vis-à-vis the Western Sahara issue.
UK, May 18, 2013 (SPS) - The UK-based movement “Woodcraft Folk” has approved unanimously, during its annual gathering, an emergency motion on Western Sahara, in which it reaffirmed its solidarity with the Saharawi people in their struggle for self determination and freedom, informed to POLISARIO Representation to the UK.
Johannesburg, May 17, 2013 (SPS) - President of the Pan-African Parliament Mr. Bethel Amadi expressed the support of the Pan-African body to the Sahrawi people’s struggle and to its legitimate right to independence, calling for an end to the sufferings of the Sahrawi population and to the Moroccan violations of human rights in Western Sahara.
Johannesburg (South Africa), May 17, 2013 (SPS) - The Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the Pan-African Parliament Mr. Bachir Chemam has called for the need to organize a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people, during the Second Session of the 3rd Legislative Period of the Third Pan African Parliament.
Midrand (South Africa), May 17, 2013 (SPS) - The Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the Pan-African Parliament Mr. Bachir Chemam has called for the need to organize a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people, during the Second Session of the 3rd Legislative Period of the Third Pan African Parliament, taking place at PAP headquarters in Midrand, South Africa, from May 6th to 20th, 2013.
London, May 17, 2013 (SPS) - Amnesty International has called, in a news-story published Thursday on its website, upon the Moroccan authorities to “immediately launch a full, independent and impartial investigation” into the torture of six Sahrawi activists, 17-year old El Hussein Bah, were tortured in police custody in Western Sahara.
Chaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps), May 16, 2013 (SPS) - Definitely, the noose has been tightened more and more on Morocco as UN initiatives multiply to put an end to the status quo, which has reigned in Western Sahara for more than 20 years.
Shahid El Hafedh, May 16, 2013 (SPS) -. Definitely, the noose tightens more and more on Morocco as UN initiatives multiply to put an end to the status quo which has reigned in Western Sahara for more than 20 years.
Occupied EL-aiun, 16 May, 2013 (SPS) - The Moroccan authorities transmitted Wednesday the Sahrawi minor Abbah Elhusain, to “Lekhal prison” in occupied EL-aiun, after only 03 days on his release on bail, according to the Ministry of the occupied cities and communities
Johannesburg, May 15, 2013 (SPS) – The Pan-African Parliament Speaker , Mr. Bethel Amadi, called yesterday for the need for self-determination in Western Sahara through a solution that ensures the Saharawi people right to self-determination, in his speech during the second regular session of the third legislature's Pan African Parliament session.
WASHINGTON ,May 16, 2013 (SPS) – A delegation of the Algerian National Commission of Solidarity with Sahrawi People (CNASPS) was received Tuesday in Washington (USA) by members of the US Congress and US NGOs which support the Sahrawi cause, as part of a visit that will continue in New York and Boston.
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Johannesburg, May 15, 2013 (SPS)-The president of the Collective of Saharawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA), Aminetu Haidar denounced today that Morocco commits all kinds of "violence and torture" against the Saharawi population in the occupied territories in the silence of the international community, in a speech to the Pan African Parliament.
Bir Lahlou (liberated territories), May 15, 2013 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, has received congratulatory message from his counterpart in East Timor, Taur Matan Ruak, on the occasion of commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Polisario Front and the beginning of the armed struggle.
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Boujdour (Saharawi refugee camps), 14 May, 2013 (SPS) - National Union of Sahrawi Women and the National Union of Algerian women have signed Monday, in boujdour, 5 twinning treaties, as the embodiment of the treaties and recommendations made during the international symposium to support the resistance of Sahrawi women lasting from 18 to 21 April, in the Sahrawi refugee camps and Algeria.
PARIS ,May 14, 2013 (SPS)- The Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT), an international NGO, called on French President François Hollande to “condition“ cooperation with Morocco to the respect by this country of human rights in the occupied Western Sahara.
Chahid El Hafedh, may 14, 2013 (SPS)- The Western allies take part in attempts to destabilization of the region with the support they give to the Moroccan invasion of Western Sahara, indicated Tuesday the Algerian daily newspaper the Maghreb.
El Aaiún, May 14, 2013(SPS)- The Moroccan occupying authorities expelled last Sunday, an Italian journalist from the occupied city of El Aaiún after his arrival on a plane coming from Rome via Casablanca, according to official Sources from the occupied city “Without offering him any justification of their decision, they took him to the taxi station and transported him in one of them to the city of Agadir-Morocco...
Dortmund (Germany), May 13, 2013 (SPS) - The Saharawi Youth Union (UJSARIO) has refuted, in a statement issued Monday, the news promoted by Moroccan media claiming its withdrawal from the Council of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY), took place on 8-9th May 2013 in Dortmund, Germany.
Kuwait, May 13, 2013 (SPS) - Kuwait and Algeria have affirmed their support to the efforts and endeavours of the United Nations to resolve the Western Sahara conflict within the framework of UN resolutions, during the working visit the Algerian Foreign Minister Mr. Mourad Medelci paid Sunday to Kuwait and his meeting with Kuwaiti Prime Minister and Foreign Minister