Canary Islands, Spain. 29th May, 2015. Takbar Haddi from Western Sahara starts her fifteenth day of an indefinate hunger strike on a sofa outside the Moroccan Consulate in Las Palmas, surrounded by photos of her dead son, demanding an inquiry into the death of her 21 year old son, Mohamed Lamin Haidala, who she claims was `murdered by Moroccon settlers` in El Aauin, the largest city in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, in February 2015. Credit: ALANDAWSONPHOTOGRAPHY/Alamy Live News
Friday, 29th May 2015, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Takbar Haddi from Western Sahara starts her fifteenth day of an indefinate hunger strike on a sofa outside the Moroccan Consulate in Las Palmas, surrounded by photos of her dead son, demanding an inquiry into the death of her 21 year old son, Mohamed Lamin Haidala, who she claims was `murdered by Moroccon settlers` in El Aauin, the largest city in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, in February 2015. She is also asking for: an independent investigation into alleged medical negligence during treatment for his injuries and alleged torture while he was in Police custody. She is also asking for clarification of the whereabouts of his body which she hasn`t seen since his death. A mainly desert territory in north-west Africa, Western Sahara is the subject of a decades-long dispute between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front. Most of it has been under Moroccan control since 1976.
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