Amnesty International Calls on Morocco to Release Sahrawi Activists Set to Be Tried on Friday

(Washington, D.C.) -- Amnesty International today is calling on the Moroccan authorities to immediately and unconditionally release three Sahrawi activists set to face trial Friday for visiting refugee camps in Algeria run by the Polisario Front. “It is simply unacceptable that the Moroccan authorities are prosecuting these seven individuals, who include human rights defenders and former victims of enforced disappearance, for freely and openly visiting refugee camps and meeting with Polisario Front officials,” said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International’s director for the Middle East and