Moroccan Police have expelled seven Spaniards and four Norwegians from the Western Sahara.
Several of those affected said the plainclothes Police took their passports and forced them into taxis to Agadir where they were expected to spend Tuesday night.
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The expulsed Norwegians have been named as Kristine Hallingstad, Pal Henriksen, Gunnar Kaus and Vegard Tjorhom, and they belong to the juvenile branches of two Norwegian political parties.
They had arrived in El Auiún, the administrative capital of the Western Sahara, with the aim of carrying out an investigation of the territory.
Another group was not able to cross from Morocco and the Sahara.
The police have alleged that the expulsion from their territory was for ‘reasons of security’.
No Moroccan official has any reference to what has happened.
Next Thursday will be second anniversary of the dismantling of a camp in Gdaim Izik, which is when the social protests started, and became a Sahrawi independence claim.
That demonstration ended with 13 deaths, 11 of them Moroccan Policemen, and was the gravest action seen in the Sahara territory for decades.
