Aminatou Haidar, the Western Sahara human rights activist expelled from her homeland 10 days ago, has entered the second week of a hunger strike in protest against the expulsion.
Aminatou Haidar, one of the most prominent human rights activists in the liberation of the Sahrawi people in Western Sahara, was detained, then deported, by the Moroccan authorities on her arrival in the territory last Friday. Some weeks earlier, she visited Washington, DC to receive the Civil Courage Prize, sponsored by the U.S.-based Train Foundation. AllAfrica interviewed her there.
In this exclusive interview with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to Nigeria, Mr. Mustapha Cherqaoui, he reflected on Nigeria-Morocco bilateral ties, the Western Sahara issue and the UN reform and others. He spoke to Mr. Charles Onunaiju. Excerpt:-
In the wake of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's meeting with Moroccan King Mohammed VI last week, a prominent human rights activist was detained on her arrival in Western Sahara, which Morocco controls.
Remarks made by the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, at a "Forum for the Future" in Marrakech, Morocco on November 3, 2009.
Remarks made by the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the Moroccan Foreign Minister, Taieb Fassi-Fihri, in Marrakech, Morocco, on November 2, 2009.
The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights (RFK Center) strongly condemns the detention of 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Laureate, Aminatou Haidar, by Moroccan authorities today upon her arrival at the airport in Laayoune, Western Sahara.
A majority of sixty-eight members of the Pan- African Parliament (PAP) have adopted the motion to exert pressure on the government of the Kingdom of Morocco to release the seven human rights activists that were "abducted upon their return from visiting their families in the Saharawi refugee camps."
