Dozens of activists, demonstrators and journalists have been detained without arrest warrants following peaceful demonstrations on 30th June 2014 in El Aiun. Many more are at risk of arbitrary detention. Two days after the demonstrations, the Moroccan authorities launched a campaign of arbitrary detentions...

Three days before he was detained, Mohmod Lhaisan delivered a live report on RASDTV (Saharawi television) which showed the excessive violence used by the Moroccan authorities against peaceable Saharawi demonstrators. Two days before he was detained, Mohmod put a message on Facebook stating that the Moroccan...