When arriving from the North,  as soon as we penetrate the Sahara, we are surprised by women’s liberty there, discretely veiled from the head to feet in a long and sheer veil, but their face is still uncovered, we see them circulating freely and conversing quite openly with foreign men. The nomad life, the life of the Saharan shepherds based on transhumance, often long and dangerous moving, have, during years, shaped the mentality of the Sahrawi woman and have made of her a strong woman. During Morocco’s Sahara recovery, the Sahrawi woman had been already predisposed to play her role by adapting herself to the transformation within the new society with definitely irrevocable changes, structural changes much more intense than those faced by men.
The Sahara region has benefited from the positive discrimination due to the Moroccan State’s will to positively compensate the situation of destitution in which the Sahrawi people had lived during the Spanish colonization. Men and women have not been able to benefit from the normal school age. A wide program of fight against illiteracy, of education and human development in the areas of economic and social life has been launched at all levels and throughout the territory. Sahara witnesses since then a silent revolution, and like her equal the man, the Sahrawi woman has been involved in a society changing rapidly, in a good way and within which she benefits from all the rights, crowned by a more liberal family code which drafting has mobilized all the society components. It is considered by the NGO Global Rights as one of the most progressive in the Muslim world, a sign of the progress achieved by the Moroccan woman’s rights.

The Association for the Defense of the Sequestered in Tindouf (ADESETI) has drawn up a list of the  Polisario torturers. Its President Yahia Alamine has just informed the international organizations.
For that purpose, the ADESETI, a humanitarian association headquartered in Sweden, with a branch in Laâyun, has actually drawn up a new exhaustive list containing the names of the Polisario torturers and detailed information about their identity as well as the positions they hold within this organization and even the tribe names of their origin. In total, it is about forty persons most of them coming from R’guibat and Tekna tribes. The work has been also based on crosschecked data and information emanating from some members of the Polisario who do oppose its thesis and hope that an urgent solution would be found to this more than thirty years conflict. Another list of persons, victims of the torture inflicted by the separatists has been drawn. 71 Sahrawis died under torture in the Polisario jails. More than that, other torture victims still suffer from mental troubles among other effects they have kept from their stay in Tindouf, to which it must be added a new series containing almost forty victims, with strong evidences, narratives and descriptions