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The State Coordinator of Associations in Solidarity with the Sahara
People (CEAS-Sahara) denounced on Monday the "expulsion"
and "lack of protection" of five Spanish lawyers and two
Norwegian observers who were going to a trial of a journalist from
Western Sahara.
In
a statement they indicate that the five lawyers were accredited by
the General Council of the Spanish Bar and the Norwegians belong to
the Rafto Foundation to witness, as international observers, that
trial against the journalist of Equipe Media Nazha el Khalidi, which,
finally, has postponed until June 24.
They
say that, after being detained yesterday for hours in the transit
area of the airport of El Aaiún, they were expelled in a plane
to Casablanca, where they have been embarked this afternoon on
another flight to Gran Canaria.
They
denounce the "silence" of the Spanish Government before the
facts, which they interpret as "complicity" in the face of
the "systematic violation of the most basic rights" of
individuals and peoples.
They
claim that Western Sahara is a non-autonomous territory pending
decolonization by Spain and "illegally occupied" by
Morocco.
They
condemn that the Government has not contacted the expelled lawyers to
be interested in their state and defend their rights as Spanish
citizens.SPS
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