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ALERT UPDATE - MOROCCO

30 May 2003

Jailed newspaper editor's condition worsens

SOURCE: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris

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Sent: 20 February 2002 18:30
To: hr-africa; hr-news
Subject: [hr-africa] Sah/Mar - UN Security Council members waved red
flag at Morocco in relation to Western Sahara oil dispute.

The government of Morocco has seized the 6 September 2001 issue of the
Spanish newspaper "El Mundo," after the daily printed statements by the
Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Josep Pique insinuating that the
Moroccan police had ties to the (immigration) mafia, according to