The group members described to Euro-deputies, Pascualina Napoletano, Vural Oger, and Philippe Morrillon, the inhumane conditions in which they lived in the Polisario prison, and the grim memories they kept of the torture they went through.

     The Euro-deputies  listened to the accounts of Mohamed Echouiar Mouloud, Mohamed El Kabch, Azouini Rbiaa, Dahi Aguai, Brahim Ali Baiba regarding the life conditions in those camps, where men, women, and the elderly were mistreated, humiliated and exploited.

     The group members also underlined that the Polisario "mercenaries" practice a "real purge" vis-à-vis the real Sahrawis, and embezzle the humanitarian aid and grants that come mainly from Europe.

      They also urged the European Union to investigate the hundred  flagrant acts of violation of human rights in the camps of Tindouf , and to take legal action against the people responsible for those actions in order to put an end to this human suffering.

    For their part, the Euro-deputies expressed great interest in following the development of the situation as well as concern over the humanitarian ramifications of this conflict. They also expressed readiness to help raise their colleagues' awareness of this dramatic situation.

    They also hailed the progress witnessed in the Sahara issue, mainly Morocco's proposal to grant substantial autonomy to its southern provinces.

    The Polisario is a separatist movement that lays claims to Morocco's Southern Provinces, known as the Sahara, a territory, which Morocco had retrieved from Spanish rule under the Madrid Accord, signed in 1975 with Spain and Mauritania.

    A year later, Polisario lured thousands of Moroccan Sahrawis into joining it in the Tindouf camps where they have been held ever since.

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