AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Media Advisory

AI Index: MDE 29/002/2002 (Public)

News Service No: 104

24 June 2002

Embargo Date: 24 June 2002 00:01GMT

Amnesty International to visit Morocco

As part of Amnesty International's ongoing work on the human rights situation in Morocco / Western Sahara, an Amnesty International delegation has today begun a two-week research mission to Morocco / Western Sahara.

The delegation will focus on the pressing issue of "disappearances", in which the cases of several hundred people, most of them Sahrawis, who "disappeared" at the hands of the Moroccan security services between the 1960s and early 1990s remain unresolved.

During their visit, the delegates will also meet members of the human rights community and civil society activists on other issues, including recent allegations of torture or ill-treatment by the security forces and human rights abuses in the Polisario camps.

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