Polisario continues to commit serious violations of human rights in Tindouf camps on Algerian soil, they told reporters after meeting with Mr. Ross, who arrived Friday evening in Laayoune, in the context of a visit to the Kingdom.

Civil society actors indicate that the separatist movement continues to inflict all kinds of torture to sequestered people in Tindouf camps, adding that when Sahrawis living in the southern provinces of the Kingdom enjoy freedom and dignified life, the population sequestered in the Tindouf camps lives in humiliation and oppression.

While the Kingdom has presented a plan for autonomy in the southern provinces, as serious and realistic proposal which was unanimously approved by the international community and welcomed by the local population, Polisario has kept the same position for three decades and has not made any steps that would allow the UN to find a final solution to this artificial conflict, say leaders of associations.

They called on the international community to put an end to these violations, clarify the fate of missing persons in the camps and lift the blockade imposed on the sequestered population so they can join the Motherland and live in dignity, together with their brothers of the southern provinces of Morocco.

They asked at the meeting with Christopher Ross, to find an urgent solution to the artificial conflict over the Sahara and end the tragic situation in the Tindouf camps.

Within the framework his visit to the Kingdom, the UN envoy carried out in Rabat, meetings with several officials, including Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Presidents of the Chambers of Representatives and Advisors, Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS) as well as representatives of political parties from the southern provinces.

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