Month August 2020

NGOs Geneva Support Group for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in Western Sahara PRESS RELEASE 30th August – International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances UN General Assembly resolution 65/209 (21/12/2010) In celebrating the International Day of…

PUSL.- To highlight the plight of the victims of enforced disappearance a gathering will take place in Paris next saturday August 29 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Place de la République in Paris. Stands of several associations mobilized…

PUSL.- According to the information provided by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Health Minister, there were no more deaths due to Covid 19. With only 25 confirmed cases of infected patients since the beginning of the pandemic, SADR continues to…

PUSL.- This Thursday, August 27, the short film “Saharawi – memory and exile” by Dr. Berenice Bento is released in an online event on facebook. In the event participate with Berenice Bento, the representative of the Polisario Front in Brazil,…

PUSL / Jornal Tornado.- The Democratic Saharawi Arab Republic (SADR) has decided to rebuild and repopulate the Liberated Areas of its territory that extend from Algeria to Mauritania and along the military separation wall built by Morocco that forms a…

PUSL.- Said Dambar’s family home in El Aaiun, occupied Western Sahara, again under police siege. The occupation authorities prevented access for the various human rights activists and journalists to enter the Dambar family home, which marked the 116th month of…

PUSL.- According to information from the Ministry of Public Health of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, in its report of yesterday, August 20, there have been no new cases or deaths in the last 24 hours. There are currently 10…

Carmen Johns: Wind and sand PUSL.- In the world of mass news media, including the relative newcomer, social media, there is ample room for the dissemination of stories. This is, of course, a tactic as old as humanity: one imagines…

PUSL.- Houcein Zawi, Saharawi political prisoner of the Gdeim Izik Group, has been transferred from Kenitra prison, near Rabat, to Tan Tan prison, in southern Morocco, as confirmed by his french lawyer, Maitre Olfa Ouled. With this transfer, Zawi is…

PUSL.- The Moroccan occupation authorities announced the closer of the Port of El Aaiun as an “preventive measure” against a second wave of covid 19. With the official version of infected now at 874, the numbers seem far below from…

PUSL.- After the Association of Friendship with the Saharawi People of Seville (AAPSS), took knowledge from the press on 29 July about the Minister of the Interior’s visit to Morocco and the article “Visit to Morocco: what Marlaska said about…

PUSL.- In a written response to the question posed by MEP Janina Ochojska, the Vice-President of the European Commission says that “consultations were carried out with the interested population” during the negotiations on the EU / Morocco Fisheries and Agriculture…

PUSL.- The Covid 19 Pandemic affected all countries of the globe, not sparing the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic. In an interview with Jira Bulahi, Minister of Health, she tells us how they face the virus in the refugee camps and…

PUSL.- Saharawi political prisoner, Mohamed Bourial of the Gdeim Izik group started this friday a 48 hours protest refusing to ingest any food. Mohamed Bourial who has a 30 years sentence, is currently detained in Tiflet 2 prison in Morocco,…

PUSL.- The young Saharawi activist Mohamed Saluki started today, at 10 am, a protest at the top of a water tower in the city of Smara, occupied territories in Western Sahara. After a few minutes, police, intelligence agents and settlers…

PUSL.- Saharawi political prisoner Lahoucine Amaadour (Husein Brahim) anounced last 30th of July that he had suspended his Hunger Strike. Amaadour who is detained in Udaya Prison in Marrakesh, Morocco, announced the suspension of the hunger strike he started on…