The Saharawi Instance Against the Moroccan Occupation (ISACOM) has asked the United Nations (UN) to take necessary measures to end Moroccan aggressions against Sahrawi activists

The non governmental organisation (NGO) called particular attention to the ‘unjustified attacks’ on activist Sultana Jaya and her family.

Jaya, a Sahrawi human rights defender living in Bojador, is understood to have been under constant surveillance and harassment from Moroccan security forces since November 2020.

‘The situation in the occupied areas of Western Sahara is really worrying and deserves the attention of the international community’, the statement read.

‘We invite the United Nations and its human rights bodies, as well as the African Union and other relevant international organisations and agencies to take a firmer position against the practices of the Moroccan occupation, including appropriate measures to end these atrocious acts of retaliation in order to protect the activist Sultana Jaya and her family from this continuous repression’.

About 20 percent of the territory is controlled by the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, while the remaining 80 percent is occupied and administered by neighbouring Morocco.

The UN considers Western Sahara a non-self-governing territory in the absence of a final settlement.

Source: SPS

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