Morocco Expels Spanish and Tunisian Lawyers Linked to Western Sahara Dispute

The security services of Laâyoune had a lot to do last weekend. On Saturday, June 22, two Tunisian lawyers were expelled from Laâyoune to Casablanca, for their links with the Polisario Front, according to the media Goud. It does not specify how this expulsion was carried out.

On Sunday, June 23, it was a group of three Spanish lawyers who were expelled, by plane, to Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands. They were not even able to leave the "Hassan 1st" Airport in Laâyoune, where they had just arrived, explains the same media, in another article.

However, the reasons for these expulsions are different since the Spanish group was planning to attend the trial of a Polisario activist, without having previously obtained authorization from the supervisory ministry, while the Tunisian women, according to the same source, were about to participate in unauthorized political events dealing solely, as Goud suggests, with the separatist thesis of the Polisario Front.