Project on Middle East Democracy

Project on Middle East Democracy
The POMED Wire


Western Sahara Talks Stalled

October 29th, 2009 by Jason

Western Sahara’s independence movement threatens to pull out of talks with Morocco unless seven detained activists are released from jail. At a press conference, a spokesman for the the Polisario Front stated, “the detention of the seven Sahrawi activists and human rights abuses in the occupied Sahrawi territories are a threat to peace and to the negotiations with Morocco.” The seven activists were arrested after disembarking from a plane in Casablanca on October 8th.


Posted in Diplomacy, Freedom, Morocco, United Nations, Western Sahara |

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