Shaheed El-Hafed, July 31, 2017 (SPS) - The Saharawi government denounced the contents of the speech of the King of Morocco on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the so-called his “ascension of the throne”, a speech, according to the Polisario Front, showed a total intransigence on the issue of Western Sahara.
9 June School (Shaheed El-Hafed), July 30, 2017 (SPS) - The National Council concluded Sunday its legislative session, during which it reviewed and ratified projects and proposals of laws.
The legislative session, which continued for three months, was characterized by a responsible debate and a sincere desire to promote national action and to realize aspirations of the National Council in the midst of the battle of institutional construction undertaken by the Saharawi State.
Bir-Lahlu, July 30, 2017 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Gali, has sent his condolences to Algerian President Abdelaziz Buteflika on the occasion of the passing away of former Prime Minister Redha Malek.
"We learnt with great sadness and sorrow the news of the passing away of former Prime Minister Redha Malek, on Saturday, July 29, 2017," lamented the president of the republic.
Madrid, July 30, 2017 (SPS) - The Grand Canary City Council, headed by the political parties of the Canary Islands and the Socialist Party (PSOE), rejected during its plenary meeting on Friday the decision of Morocco to delimit its maritime borders off the Canary Islands by integrating the waters of Western Sahara, said the head of international solidarity, Carmelo Ramirez.
London, July 29, 2017 (SPS) - Tauro beach in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands), once rocky, has been covered in sand illegally taken from the last African colony, Western Sahara, as noted by an investigation conducted by British newspaper the Guardian published on Saturday.
Titled “Trouble in Paradise,” the Guardian’s investigation stressed that the project to cover the rocky beach with 70,000 tons of sand was done “in breach of international law and in defiance of the last African colony, the occupied territory of Western Sahara.”
Bir-Lehlu (SADR), July 29, 2017 - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Gali, has called on the Commission of the African Union to work for the release of the Saharawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik group and all Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons.
Stockholm, July 29, 2017 (SPS) - The Swedish parliamentary network for Western Sahara has demanded an independent international investigation into the torture practices against prisoners of Gdeim Izik group and the rest of the Saharawi prisoners held in the prisons of the Moroccan occupation.
Investigation launched into allegations that sand in Gran Canaria resort was sourced from Africa’s last colony, in breach of international law
Friday 28 July 2017 14.44 BST
When David Silva picked up a spade on a beach in the Canary Islands last summer and started shovelling sand from a wooden box, it seemed innocuous enough.
The Manchester City and Spain football star is a local boy, and had given his valuable blessing to a beach project on Gran Canaria that promised to create new jobs with a tourism magnet complete with 500-berth marina and golf course.
Bir-Lehlu, July 28, 2017 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, called on the African Union to intervene in order to expedite the release of the Sahrawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik group and all Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons.
Paris, July 27, 2017 (SPS) - Several associations have condemned Wednesday the sentences issued against the Sahrawi political detainees of Group Gdeim Izik by Rabat Court, demanding their release and the end of the Moroccan repression against the Sahrawis in the Occupied Territories.
Madrid, July 27, 2017 (SPS) - The delegate of the Frente POLISARIO in Spain Jira Bulahi called the government of Mariano Rajo to intervene with Morocco to free the Sahrawi prisoners of the Gdeim Izik camp recently convicted to heavy sentences.
Abuja, Nigeria, July 26th, 2017 (SPS) - Women Advancement for Economic & Leadership Empowerment in Africa (WAELE/ARCELFA) has strongly expressed its concern over the last unjust sentencing of Saharawi 23 political prisoners who are journalist and human right activists from Gdiem Izik by Court of Appeal in Sale, The Kingdom of Morocco on the 19th of July 2017 in letter to his Excellency, Mr. Antonio Guterres ,United Nation General Secretary.
Bir Lahlou, July 26, 2017 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the frente POLISARIO, Brahim Gali, sends today a congratulatory message to his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro Ruz on the occasion of the 64nd anniversary of the heroic qssault on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba.
Brahim Ghali, on behalf of the Government and People of the Saharawi Republic, in his letter to His Excellency Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, expressed his sincerest congratulations and best wishes for Cuba.
Bir Lahlou, July 26, 2017 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, sent a letter of condolence to the Algerian President, Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in which he extended his condolences on his behalf and on behalf of the people and the government of the Saharawi Republic, to the family of the deceased, Kamel Rezzag Bara , who died Tuesday morning.
Chahi El Hafed, July 26, 2017 (SPS) - The expanded Council of Ministers met on Tuesday, under the presidency of the President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Gali, to address the progress of the national cause and to evaluate the presidential tour, which his last leg, has been Chahid El Hafed.
The meeting of the Council of Ministers discussed the meetings with the popular bases in the framework of the presidential visit to the wilayas.
Bir Lahlou (Sahrawi Liberated Territories)- President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO Brahim Gali called on the United Nations to find a mechanism to monitor and protect human rights in Western Sahara, affirming that the sentences pronounced against the political prisoners of “Gdeim Izik” group was another “proof of Morocco’s intention to continue the violation of human rights in the occupied territories in the absence of witnesses.”
Geneva (Switzerland) July 25, 2017 (SPS) - The Swiss Committee for the Support of the Saharawi People expressed its condemnation after the a mock trial of the Sahrawi political prisoners, known as the Gdeim Izik Group by the Moroccan occupation court, describing the trial as unfair and lacking concrete evidence.
In a statement, the committee said it deplored the July 19 arbitrary verdicts against 23 Sahrawi activists were arrested in the aftermath of the violent dismantling of the peaceful protest camp.
Reacting to news of the extreme sentences imposed by the Moroccan authorities against a group of Saharawi activists (which include life imprisonment), the President of the World Peace Council, Socorro Gomes, has issued a statement this Sunday (23) to strongly reject the persecution of the activists and to call for the end of the occupation of Western Sahara by the Kingdom of Morocco. The entire trial had been rejected by various entities that dennounced its arbitrariness and the ill-treatment suffered by the prisoners. Read Socorro Gomes’ statement below:
Shaheed El-Hafed, 24 July 2017 (SPS) - Minister Counselor to the Presidency of the Republic, member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, Bashir Mustafa Sayed, chaired Monday a meeting of the subcommittee for national and international program of solidarity with the Sahrawi political prisoners group and condemnation of the unjust sentences issued against them.
Stockholm (Sweden), July 23, 2017 (SPS) - The Swedish commission of solidarity with the Sahrawi people denounced the iniquitous sentences against the Sahrawi political prisoners of "Gdeim Izik" group, affirming that the trial and according to the testimony of international observers who attended the trial was just a “pure staging” and that the sentences were pronounced on the basis of confessions extracted under torture and false testimony.