Despite heavy snowfall, approximately two hundred people attended a torch march for the Students' Peace Prize 2009 laureate Elkouria Amidane, in Trondheim, Norway, 27 February 2009.
The march started at Trondheim Square, reaching Olav Concert Hall, where the Students' Peace Prize 2009 later the same evening was going to be given to Elkouria Amidane from Western Sahara.
As the march reached the concert hall, more and more people joined the waiting crowd to greet and cheer Amdane's arrival.
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The occupying power Morocco, which sabotages the work of the UN Human Rights Council in occupied Western Sahara, has begun its first session after being elected to preside the Council.
Today, Morocco was elected to chair the UN Human Rights Council. The result generated strong reactions.
"The credibility of the UN system is at stake", says the Norwegian Support Committee about this week's election of a new presidency of the Human Rights Council. Norwegian organizations are critical of the candidacy.
A Saharawi activist in Moroccan prison last week initiated an open hunger strike.