Defenders of human rights expressed during a meeting Saturday in Laayoune with the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General the Sahara, Christopher Ross, their condemnation of gross violations of human rights suffered by sequestered population in the Tindouf camps.

Ten members of a family from Rguibat-Labeihat tribe, among the beneficiaries of the family visit exchange, decided to settle permanently in the southern city of Smara and not to return to the Tindouf camps.

UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Christopher Ross will start from next Wednesday, a tour in the region to prepare a "possible resumption of direct negotiations" on the Sahara, where a solution "becomes more urgent than ever "in view of the" risk of instability in the Sahel ", said Friday the UN in New York.

Mr. Eckhart Von Malsen, international law expert and former member of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), regrets the harsh living and extremely difficult conditions in camps in Tindouf, saying that the "living conditions I been able to see in these camps were absolute cruel."

The autonomy plan for the Sahara, proposed by Morocco, is "a good basis for discussions," said Friday MEP Neyts-Uyttebroeck, who "deplores" the Polisario and Algeria do not accept this plan as a basis for negotiation.