Danish protest against Moroccan kangaroo court
Today, representatives of Danish solidarity organization Africa Contact, the Danish political party the Red-Green Alliance, Polisario, and others staged a protest outside the Moroccan Embassy ...
Tag Archives: Western Sahara
European Parliament to report on human rights situation in Western Sah...
“Dr Tannock is not in a position to answer your questions as the report has not been written and dates have not been set yet,” the personal assistant of the recently appointed Special Rapporteur of t...
Danish delegation stalked by Moroccan police during visit to occupied ...
”When we left our hotel, we discovered that we were being followed by a small army of Moroccan security officers. They obviously did not want the truth about the occupation of Western Sahara to be re...
Swedish parliament wants government to recognise Western Sahara
Today [5. December], a oppositional majority in the Swedish parliament voted to recommend that the Swedish government “recognises the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as soon as possible.” If...
Health Minister: people are starving in 37-year-old refugee camps
“The people in the refugee camps are starving,” Minister of Public Health in the government of the Western Saharan government in exile, the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mohamed Lamin Dadi, told...
Moroccan human rights violations on the rise
“Severe beatings, sexual violence, and other forms of ill-treatment [against migrants] appear to be on the rise,” United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Méndez, said Saturday after re...
“No other choice” than self-determination for Western Sahara
“There is no other choice but self-determination,” says a lady interviewed in a new documentary about Western Sahara made by 31-year-old English independent film-maker and journalist, Dominic Brown. ...
Danish ship sails from occupied Western Sahara – with illegal cargo?...
Is the Danish vessel Marianne Danica illegally shipping phosphates from the occupied territories in Western Sahara? Marianne Danica was spotted leaving the harbour in El Aaiun (Laayoune) in Western S...
Morocco criticised for Western Sahara human-rights violations in Amnes...
“Security forces used excessive force against protesters. Critics of the monarchy and state institutions continued to face prosecution and imprisonment, as did Sahrawi advocates of self-determination...
Siemens criticised over Western Sahara deal
A spokesperson for the United Nations Global Compact has said that they “are looking into the issue” of the deal between Siemens Denmark and the Moroccan government to build 22 windmills near El Aaai...
Polisario rejects Siemens’ claim to be developing Western Sahara
Siemens have been accused by Western Saharan liberation front Polisario and several organisations – including Western Sahara Resource Watch, Danwatch and Africa Contact – of breaking inte...
Danish government zigzagging over Western Sahara
Danish Minister for Trade and Investment, Pia Olsen Dyhr, says that Denmark will not support or subsidize Danish companies that operate illegally in Western Sahara. A month ago, the Minister was rath...
Siemens makes illegal windmill deal in occupied Western Sahara
The German multinational, Siemens, has landed an order for the construction and maintenance of 22 windmills to be built in a wind farm in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. The order is part of a larg...
Refugee starvation could trigger new war over Western Sahara says Mini...
“The strategy of the Moroccan regime is to starve the Saharawi refugees into accepting the Moroccan position. They pressurize the UN into not giving the refugees more aid,” says the Minister of Coope...
Springtime for Western Sahara?
In many North African and Arab countries, the demands for democracy and economic redistribution of the so-called “Arab Spring”, have sounded the loudest from the region’s youth. The press...
Danish Foreign Minister to pressurize Morocco on Western Sahara
Cheikh Banga has been on a hunger strike since mid-September. His life is therefore in danger. But he is willing to risk his life for the cause he is fighting for – independence for the population of...