Moroccan plainclothes police officers expelled Rosa Díez, a deputy of Unión Progreso y Democracia (UPyD), from the house of Sahrawi activist Galia Jimmy, in El Aaiún, at approximately 6:00 p.m.
Díez, who arrived in the capital of Western Sahara this noon to deliver a letter from Aminatu Haidar to her children, had a meeting of barely 20 minutes with the activist, until the agents forced her to leave the house.
The UPyD deputy met with the family and delivered the letter to them, under a strong police presence
After twelve noon, the deputy of Unión Progreso y Democracia (UPyD) Rosa Díez landed this morning in El Aaiún, the administrative capital of Western Sahara. Her objective, she explained to the media at the aerodrome of this city, is to deliver a letter from Aminatu Haidar to her children, Hayat (15 years old) and Mohamed El Kassimi (13), in a meeting that has already been held at the home of Aminatu's father and under a strong police presence.
A letter that Haidar has written to her children. A message, Díez said, "from a worried mother who remembers her little ones and in which she wants to transmit all her strength and her infinite love."
For the UPyD deputy, "it is important that Morocco knows that the international community is aware of the entire family of the Sahrawi, because if we look at them, we protect them."
In the letter that Rosa Díez brought with her from Lanzarote, "written on a large card with the image of Aminatu", she reiterates all her love "and tells them that she loves them, that she thinks of them and asks them to take care of themselves, them and their one-year-old niece whom she considers as a daughter."
According to the deputy, the activist "is convinced of her struggle and fully aware that what she does is for her children and the new generations of Sahrawis, so that they do not have to do it when they are older."