At that poignant reunion, resulted Wednesday the two-day meeting initiated under the patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the zaouia Darkaouiya Sheikh Sidi Brahim Bassir (Azilal province), in commemoration of Moroccan Sahrawi people uprising against the Spanish occupation forces (17 June 1970), in which Martyr Bassir Mohamed, a native of the zaouia and one of his fervent followers, played a key role. 

The Internationale Démocratique du Centre (IDC) called, Tuesday, for the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to endeavour towards enabling the Sahraoui population detained in the polisario camps against its will to return home.

An Australian documentary which denounces the slavery practices in the camps of Tindouf was screened in the Film Festival of Sydney (June 3-14) in spite of the strong pressures by the Polisario separatists.

Photo : Violeta Ayala & Dan Fallshaw

A Madrid-based court has decided to initiate legal proceedings for "genocide" against 27 leaders of Polisario as a result of a complaint by the Saharawi Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ASADEDH), filed on 26 December 2007.

A group of Sahrawi associations for human rights in Laayoune, called for the installation of a monitoring mechanism to ensure proper delivery of grants by the European Commission (EC) to citizens kidnapped in the camps Tindouf.