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Deportation of Nobel Peace Prize nominee “could backfire” on Morocco

Haidar’s hunger strike at the airport has attracted international attention

The detention and deportation of Western Sahara’s most prominent human rights activist could backfire on Morocco as the action attracts worldwide condemnation. Aminatou Haidar, known has the "Sahrawi Gandhi", was deported from her home to Lanzarote by the Moroccans on Saturday and has been on hunger strike in the airport terminal ever since.

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• Western Sahara: Parliamentary questions and vigil for ’the Casablanca Seven’

• British MP’s “running out of patience” on Western Sahara situation

• UN Secretary-General Appoints Hany Abdel-Aziz of Egypt as Special Representative for Western Sahara

• UN urged to intercede on behalf of seven ’disappeared’ Saharawi human rights advocates

• Western Sahara dominates UN Decolonization Meeting

• Morocco-Western Sahara: Moroccans risk jail for visiting W/Sahara camps in Algeria

• “End the illegal occupation of Western Sahara” Labour Party Conference urged

• Western Sahara Campaigners mark International Peace Day in Camden, London, with a demand for the immediate end to torture

• Western Sahara: British Government challenged

• Western Sahara: Torture, Abductions and disappearances

• Western Sahara: The Thirst of the Dunes - Lost Years of the Saharawi

• Western Sahara: UN envoy optimistic despite unflinching positions of Morocco and Sahraouis

• Western Sahara: doggedness, incriminations and a UN confusion

• Western Sahara: Obama to chose sides

• Morocco inflicting abuses on Western Saharans

• Polisario Front to fight for independence not autonomy from Morocco

• Gabon President approves Western Sahara’s autonomy under Morocco

• The Polisario Front insists on a referendum for Western Sahara

• Morocco - UN : Western Sahara independence is unattainable

• Morocco and Algeria : Impasse over Western Sahara

• Morocco seeks dialogue with Algeria over "Western Sahara"

• U.S approves Morocco’s proposal for autonomy in Western Sahara

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	popular articles • Deportation of Nobel Peace Prize nominee “could backfire” on Morocco • Western Sahara-Morocco: Poisoning the Well? • The ’Berlin Wall’ of the desert • ’Miracle-worker’ surgeon and Monty Python lend their support to Western Sahara refugee project • Western Sahara dominates UN Decolonization Meeting

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