Category Archives: Western Sahara
Human Rights Watch 2013 Report Morocco/Western Sahara
Human rights conditions were decidedly mixed in Morocco, as a 2011 constitution containing strong human rights provisions did not translate into improved practices. While Moroccans exercised their right to protest in the streets, the police often dispersed them violently, and protest leaders and dissidents risked imprisonment after unfair trials, sometimes based on the many laws […]
#WesternSahara Video: Youth clash with police in El Aaiún
Rare video shows an injured youth on the ground and angry crowd hurling rocks at a police vehicle before it drives away, narrowly avoiding running people over. Source Source This older video shows a vicious attack by a group of police on a youth who is fortunately able to escape, although he received a severe kicking and sacrificed his jacket in the process of […]
Western Sahara Under Mounting Pressure
Heightened Security “We’ve been building a lot of new walls lately,” says Polisario Front commander Ahmed Salem as he drives his 4 X 4 across Tindouf in Western Algeria. But the newly introduced security measures may not be enough to ensure the survival of the Western Sahrawis. Salem Ahmed drives along the desert sand wall […]
Western Sahara: a South Sudan Suggestion
The New York Bar Association has issued a document recommending that a referendum be held in Western Sahara which follows the same lines as the South Sudan referendum on independence, making references to international law and claiming that such a right to independence is covered by its terms. The document issued by the New York […]
#WesternSahara’s Overlooked Arab Spring
In the wake of the ongoing unrest across the Arab world, voices from the forgotten Western Sahara conflict claim their role in the so-called Arab Spring. DW talked to a Western Sahara independence activist. Sidi Ahmed Talmidi was one of the nine-member group responsible for the negotiations with the Moroccan government during the events in […]
