CONFERENZA STAMPA, gruppo Parlamentari europei 12.03.2013

The European Parliament Intergroup for Western Sahara, held a press conference on Tuesday 12 March regarding the latest developments on human rights in Western Sahara.

Topics discussed included:

-the deterioration of human rights in the occupied territories

-the Gdeim Izik military trial of Sahrawi political prisoners in Morocco

-the expulsion of a European Parliament human rights fact-finding mission to the occupied territory of Western Sahara

Among the MEPs present to speak at the press conference were:

Norbert Neuser, Chair of the Intergroup for Western Sahara

Pino Arlacchi, Vice-Chair of the Intergroup for Western Sahara

Vicente Garcés Ramón

Isabellla Lövin

Antonio Masip Hidalgo

Willy Meyer, Vice-Chair of the Committee for Foreign Affairs & of the Intergroup for Western Sahara

Marco Scurria, Vice-Chair of the Intergroup for Western Sahara

Ivo Vajgl, Vice-Chair of the Intergroup for Western Sahara»>