Shaheed Al-Hafed, 29 January 2025 (SPS) - Morocco has once again demonstrated its efforts to cover up and hide its crimes in the occupied Sahrawi territories, as the occupying authorities expelled a Spanish parliamentary delegation yesterday, Tuesday, which intended to visit the occupied city of El Aaiun to observe the situation of the Sahrawi people. This development was described by the Sahrawi National Human Rights Commission as dangerous.
In a statement, the Commission said: "In a serious and ongoing development by the Moroccan occupying state for years, on January 28, 2025, Moroccan authorities prevented and expelled a delegation consisting of Basque parliamentarians and observers from entering and visiting the occupied Sahrawi cities after they were stopped and barred from continuing their travel to the occupied city of El Aaiun."
The same Commission pointed out that the attempt by these parliamentarians and foreign observers to visit the occupied Sahrawi cities falls within their desire to understand the situation of the occupation on the ground and to meet with human rights defenders, the unemployed, students, victims of human rights violations, bloggers, and Sahrawi journalists, to inform them of the violations and degrading practices that undermine human dignity, accompanied by the confiscation of all rights, the most significant of which is the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination and independence.
The Sahrawi National Human Rights Commission condemned the Moroccan occupying state's continuous and unpunished resort to expelling and preventing international observers from visiting and entering the occupied territories of the Sahrawi Republic, where the repressive policy continues to target every Sahrawi citizen who demands freedom, dignity, the right to life, and independence.
The Commission expressed its solidarity with the members of the Basque parliamentary delegation and condemned the unjust decision to prevent them from traveling to and entering the occupied territories of the Sahrawi Republic, calling on the international community (Human Rights Council, High Commissioner, International Red Cross, European Parliament, etc.) to take urgent action to respect human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
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