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.

Saadani Maoulainine, one of the thousands of Moroccans the Algerian-backed polisario separatists sent to Cuba for indoctrination, exposed, Monday before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), the systematic human rights abuses in the polisario-run Tindouf camps, south-western Algeria.

Morocco's proposal to grant broad autonomy to the Kingdom's Southern Provinces, the Sahara, is a "bold initiative that must be supported," said, Friday, the former president of the autonomous government of the Canary Islands, Lorenzo Olarte Cullen.

The paramilitary activities carried out by the separatist movement (polisario) in the Tifariti buffer zone require action on the part of the United Nations, which we expect to "take the necessary measures to restore the original situation which prevailed in the beginning of the ceasefire in the early 90s," Moroccan Communication Minister and Spokesman for the government Khalid Naciri said on Thursday.