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Morocco denies 'torturing' Sahrawi protesters
Casablanca :: Morocco | 16 hours ago
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Rating In Summary It also dismissed claims by Amnesty that the youngest detainee, 17-year-old El Hussein Bah, had been threatened with rape. Morocco denied on Saturday accusations by Amnesty International that security forces tortured six men who
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Big independence demo in West Sahara
Casablanca :: Morocco | 13 days ago
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Hundreds of pro-independence Sahrawi activists marched in Laayoune at the weekend, the Western Sahara's largest city, in the biggest such protest in recent decades, Moroccan newspapers reported on Monday. Hundreds of people marched peacefully late on
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Morocco: Human Rights in Western Sahara - British NGO Urges UN to Act Quickly
Casablanca :: Morocco | 14 days ago
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The NGO also denounced "the repression, intimidation and the besieging of cities; all by means of an astonishingly abusive and disproportionate deployment of police and military force, used continuously to disperse peaceful protests."
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Morocco border issue could be resolved soon: Algeria
Rabat :: Morocco | 28 days ago
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Rating In Summary Western powers, most recently France's President Francois Hollande during a visit to Morocco earlier this month, have sought to pressure the north African neighbours into reopening their common frontier to boost trade and
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US officials: War games with Morocco canceled
Casablanca :: Morocco | 1 month ago
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U.S. officials say Morocco has canceled a major annual military exercise with the United States over the Obama administration's support for expanding the powers of a U.N. mission in the disputed Western Sahara. The officials said Tuesday that Morocco
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Morocco must free jailed Sahrawis or hold fair trial: HRW
Rabat :: Morocco | 1 month ago
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Morocco's military trial and imprisonment of 25 Sahrawis, nine of them for life, violated international law, Human Rights Watch charged on Monday, calling on Rabat to either free or retry the defendants in a civilian court. The New York-based rights
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Morocco: Norwegian MP Boycotts Council of Europe's Meetings in Morocco in Protest to Trial of Gdeim Izik Prisoners
Rabat :: Morocco | 2 months ago
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Woldseth, Progress Party and Second Vice-Chairperson of the European Democrat Group in the Council of Europe has announced that she boycotted meetings of the Council of Europe held in Rabat, Morocco, on March and April 2013, as a sign of protest to
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Morocco refuses entry to EU lawmakers
Casablanca :: Morocco | 2 months ago
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An ariel photo shows the wall separating Morocco and Mauritania in the Saharan occidental on January 4, 2002, during the Tan Tan (Morocco)-Zouerat (Mauritania) stage of the Arras Dakar Rally. Four members of the European Parliament, on their way to
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Morocco: Another Moroccan 'Coup De Theatre'
Rabat :: Morocco | 3 months ago
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The latest trial has yet again stunned the world with regard to Morocco's persistent audacity to blatantly defy international law, digging itself deeper into a geo-politically embarrassing legal ditch of its own making. Time and time again Morocco
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Gdeim Izik: the first, forgotten spark of the Arab uprisings
Algiers :: Algeria | 3 months ago
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Many commentators, notably in Algeria, have drily noted the familiar dissonance between the west's florid paeans to Arab freedoms and emancipation and its continuing indifference to the plight of Sahrawis next door...Last week, on Saturday, 16
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