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»>