Just five days before the one-month anniversary of her return to El Aaiún, the administrative capital of Western Sahara, Sahrawi activist Aminatu Haidar "lives in her house under house arrest", say activists of the Sahrawi cause and colleagues of the president of the Sahrawi Collective of Human Rights Defense (Codesa).
"The police continue to surround our house, preventing access to all those who want to visit her and they have her totally controlled," says Leila Haidar, Aminatu's sister, while adding that the Sahrawi Ghandi "continues very weak in health, with stomach pains and relapses after the hard hunger strike she overcame at the Lanzarote airport."
Morocco, for its part, denies this information and assures that the activist -expelled from El Aaiún on November 14- is not "kidnapped" in her house. "They are all inventions and manipulations of the enemies of Morocco," explains an official source by telephone.
And the Minister for the Moroccan Community Abroad, Mohammed Ameur, also said this Monday in Spain, for whom the statements of the Sahrawi activists "are totally false."
According to Ameur, Haidar's house is not surrounded by police because Morocco "has no interest in turning this woman into a matter of greater importance that goes beyond the real dimension of her situation."
ACN Press