Morocco must immediately release longest-held Sahrawi political prisoner, says UN Special Procedure (Press Release)

Geneva, 13 March 2022 (SPS) -The family of ailing Sahrawi human rights defender Yahya Mohamed Elhafed Iaazza, held for 14 years in a Moroccan prison, demands his immediate freedom after the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that he was arrested and tried by Morocco for his activism, forced to confess under torture and denied the right to a defence attorney.

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