**The Gazette /Canada 08/12/2009ACTIVIST REFUSES TO END HUNGER STRIKE
LANZAROTE - A Western Sahara activist vowed Monday to push on with a three-week-old hunger strike at a Spanish airport to demand Morocco allow her to return home, despite pressure from Spain.
Aminatou Haidar has been consuming only sugared water since Nov. 16, days after Moroccan authorities denied her entry to her native Western Sahara, a disputed territory annexed by Morocco in 1975, allegedly confiscated her passport, and sent her back to Spain's Canary Islands. The 42-year-old mother-of-two, who campaigns for the Western Sahara's independence from Morocco, is occasionally helped into a wheelchair to be taken to the toilet.
She appeared very weak and thin and spoke with a weak voice, but was still lucid and coherent.
LANZAROTE - A Western Sahara activist vowed Monday to push on with a three-week-old hunger strike at a Spanish airport to demand Morocco allow her to return home, despite pressure from Spain.
Aminatou Haidar has been consuming only sugared water since Nov. 16, days after Moroccan authorities denied her entry to her native Western Sahara, a disputed territory annexed by Morocco in 1975, allegedly confiscated her passport, and sent her back to Spain's Canary Islands. The 42-year-old mother-of-two, who campaigns for the Western Sahara's independence from Morocco, is occasionally helped into a wheelchair to be taken to the toilet.
She appeared very weak and thin and spoke with a weak voice, but was still lucid and coherent.
**The Gazette / Canada 10/12/2009
MOROCCO URGED TO ALLOW HUNGER STRIKER'S RETURN
LANZAROTE, Spain - Amnesty International on Wednesday called for Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar, who is on a three-week-old hunger strike at a Spanish airport, to be allowed to go home.
Haidar has consumed only sugared water since Nov. 16, three days after Moroccan authorities denied her entry to her native Western Sahara, a disputed territory annexed by Rabat in 1975, allegedly confiscated her passport, and sent her back to Spain's Canary Islands.
The 42-year-old mother of two, who campaigns for the Western Sahara's independence from Morocco, was returning to her hometown of Laayoune after a trip to receive a human rights award in the United States
LANZAROTE, Spain - Amnesty International on Wednesday called for Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar, who is on a three-week-old hunger strike at a Spanish airport, to be allowed to go home.
Haidar has consumed only sugared water since Nov. 16, three days after Moroccan authorities denied her entry to her native Western Sahara, a disputed territory annexed by Rabat in 1975, allegedly confiscated her passport, and sent her back to Spain's Canary Islands.
The 42-year-old mother of two, who campaigns for the Western Sahara's independence from Morocco, was returning to her hometown of Laayoune after a trip to receive a human rights award in the United States
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