The four international visitors who broke the siege of the Khaya home 6 days ago have been listening to the stories of the people in Boujdour. They want the rapes and siege to stop. Ruth McDonough, a U.S. and British citizen, said “Although I had read Sultana Khaya's call for an end to the rapes and terrorization of her family before we arrived to the house, nothing prepared me for the devastating signs of these abuses, including horrific scars and bashed-out teeth. I am overwhelmed by what the Khaya sisters and their mother have endured for 482 days. “An international investigation into the targeting of the Khaya family is imperative as they represent the experiences of the Saharawi community as a whole.”
Morocco's security forces have often been accused by Moroccan and international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, of torturing activists and terrorism suspects.
On 22 December 2021, the European Commission released a report on how the EU-Morocco trade agreement allegedly is for the “benefits for the people of Western Sahara.
The EU's circumvention of the 2016 ruling was yet again found invalid in the court ruling on 29 September 2021. The Court repeated and further clarified that the argumentation of benefits to the local population cannot replace the requirement of obtaining consent from the Saharawi people.
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