Morocco Expels Spanish Photographer Linked to Polisario Front

A Spanish photographer, reportedly close to the Polisario Front according to some media sources, was asked to leave Laâyoune, heading to Agadir, as she did not have the proper authorizations for what she was actually coming to do.
This photojournalist, named Judith Prat, is said to be known to be close to the Polisario Front. She came to Morocco as a tourist and was about to participate, according to her, in a training for local journalists and photographers, before being informed that she did not have the necessary accreditations for what she was about to do.
"The Moroccan police started knocking on the door of the house where I was staying, yelling. They gave me five minutes to get out and put me on a bus to leave the territory. They didn’t give me any other option," lamented Judith Prat, stating that this is the first time she has been expelled from a country in this way. "It must be quite common in Morocco," she denounced.
The photojournalist had arrived from Dakhla on Tuesday night around 9 p.m., she says, after a long bus ride from the city of Dakhla. Her companions from the Equipe Médica had then gone to pick her up before transferring her to the home of a certain Said Amidam where she was to be housed.
Last month, the Moroccan authorities expelled five Spanish nationals and two Norwegians while they were still at Laâyoune airport. According to the newspaper El Pais, they were: María Dolores Travieso (Aminatou Haidar’s lawyer), Ruth Sebastián García, Lourdes Barón, Ramón Campos, and Sidi Mohamed Taleb Buya, as well as two representatives of the Rafto NGO.
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