Morocco Expels French Lawyer Seeking to Visit Sahrawi Activists in Prison

Elise Taulet was unable to visit her clients, the Sahrawi activists accused of participating in the violence in the Gdim Izik camp, near the southern border, and sentenced to heavy sentences, as she wished when she left France for Morocco on April 24. And for good reason, she "submitted several requests to visit her clients in order to find out about their conditions in Moroccan prisons", but "the Moroccan authorities rejected her accreditation" thus delaying "the authorization of the procedure by the Ministry of Justice, the prison administration and the public prosecutor’s office", reports the Europa Press agency.

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Faced with the situation, the lawyer resigned and took the road to visit the relatives of the Sahrawi activists in Laâyoune. After a stopover in Tan Tan to meet Mohamed el Hafed Iazza, a former prisoner as well as the family of the detainee El Hussein Bachir Amaadur, she was arrested by the Royal Gendarmerie in the company of two companions at Oued Elouaer, about 100 km north of Tan Tan. She will then be released and expelled to Agadir.