Morocco/Western Sahara: Allow human rights defender to return home: Aminatou Haidar (f)

Index Number: MDE 29/014/2009
Date Published: 4 December 2009
Categories: Morocco

The Moroccan authorities confiscated Sahrawi human rights defender Aminatou Haidar’s passport on 13 November 2009 and expelled her from the country the following day, leaving her stranded in Lanzarote Airport, in Spain’s Canary Islands. She has been on hunger strike since 15 November in protest.