The petition, dubbed "Oslo Call" was handed over, last Tuesday, to the Norwegian Foreign Ministry on the occasion of the World Refugee Day, marked on June 20. 

The signatories called upon the Norwegian ministry to pressure Algeria into respecting its commitments as a signatory country of the agreement on related to refugees' status.

The commitments, the petition underlined, holds the country accountable for a vulnerable population that are subjected, daily and arbitrarily, to physical abuses and denied their right to freely return to their homeland.

Highlighting slavery and forced disappearances perpetrated in the Tindouf camps, southwestern Algeria, the Oslo Call recalled the latest report of Amnesty International as well as the admissibility of complaints lodged against several torturers in these camps in Spain's high court.   

The petition underlined "the abusive exploitation of the human situation of the Sahrawis in the camps, allegedly presented to the international opinion as [Refugees] at a time when the Algerian services refuses any access of international independent observers."

Source : MAP
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