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.

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.