Here are the human rights violations for 2007
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The Sahrawi human rights organisation CODESA has put together a report of last year's human rights violations committed by Morocco against the Sahrawis.
Published 22 March 2008


Codesa is an independent human rights organisation in occupied Western Sahara. The organisation has not been permitted to be formally registered by the Moroccan authorities.

The report is 103 pages long and can be downloaded here (1,9 mb).

UN body calls for the release of imprisoned Saharawi student

In a decision published yesterday, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concludes that the detention of the Saharawi student and human rights defender Al-Hussein Al-Bachir Ibrahim is arbitrary. The UN Working Group called on Morocco to immediately release him from the deplorable prison conditions.

09 April 2025

Two Norwegians Are Now Being Deported from Occupied Western Sahara

Two more Norwegians, who travelled to occupied Western Sahara to learn about Morocco’s controversial energy projects in the territory, were detained by Moroccan police this afternoon and deported.

04 November 2024

Norwegians deported from occupied Western Sahara - wanted to learn about renewable energy

Today, 25 Moroccan police officers showed up to expel two Norwegians from occupied Western Sahara. The two had traveled to learn what the Sahrawis think about Morocco's controversial renewable energy projects on occupied land.

02 November 2024

UN committee highlights Moroccan impunity in occupied Western Sahara

Sahrawi civil society welcomes a new report from the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearance, and urges exhumations and identification of victims in the Morocco-occupied Western Sahara.

11 October 2024