 Concert backs
'Gandhi of
Dani Macaco BBC News, 29 November 2009 Spanish artists, singers and actors have staged a concert in support of a Western Sahara activist on hunger strike on the Spanish island Lanzarote. Aminatou Haidar,
nicknamed the "Gandhi of Sahara" after seeking independence for the
disputed region, was refused re-entry to Film director
Pedro Almodovar was among 1,000 people at a concert near Dozens of Spanish
singers and artists performed under a massive image of Ms Haidar, who
wants to return to her home in the Western Saharan city of The hit Spanish
singer Dani Macaco joined the concert in "They are in big
trouble. If she dies the government will be in bigger trouble. That is
what we trying to do - to use our popularity to try make more pressure
- and we hope that she lives," he said. Moroccan officials
had confiscated Ms Haidar's passport when, on returning from Lanzarote
after collecting a prize, she refused to state her citizenship as
Moroccan. On Saturday Spanish foreign
minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said: "In order to show we're prepared
to do whatever is necessary, we've made an exception on humanitarian
grounds. "We'll try to get
her Spanish nationality and a Spanish passport as quickly as possible." But Ms Haidar, who is camped outside Lanzarote airport, has demanded her original passport back and refuses to ask for another one. She has vowed to
carry on refusing food and said she is prepared to die if she cannot
return home. On 17 November Ms
Haidar was told to appear in court after a public order complaint by
the airport where she remains camped. Supporters say Ms Haidar, who won the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award last year, is in a weak condition. From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8385407.stm
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