Although the repression eased after 1990 and in 1991 King Hassan II released some 270 of the “disappeared” Sahrawis, security police maintain a tighter control in this region than elsewhere.

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A Moroccan court on Monday resumed the trial of of 25 Sahrawis accused of killing 13 people, mostly security forces, in the contested Western Sahara's Gdeim Izik camp in November 2010.

In the wake of a deadly incident involving Algerian military forces, the Sahrawis for Peace Movement — a dissident faction from the Polisario Front — has issued an urgent letter to UN envoy Staffan de ...