2010年11月16日火曜日

Information blockade in Morocco to veto of the spanish press in the Western Sahara

Cerrojo informativo en Marruecos

El veto a la prensa española en el Sáhara recuerda las restricciones de la era de Hassan II.- El Gobierno retira la acreditación al corresponsal de 'Abc'

JUAN CARLOS SANZ | Enviado especial a Casablanca 12/11/2010
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Cerrojo/informativo/Marruecos/elpepuint/20101112elpepuint_9/Tes

Lock information in MoroccoThe veto of the Spanish press in the Sahara remember the restrictions of the era of Hassan II .- The Government withdrew the accreditation to the correspondent of 'Abc'
JUAN CARLOS SANZ | Special Envoy to Casablanca 12/11/2010
In Morocco it costs to turn the page of the dark years of the reign of Hasasn II. The political opening that marked the arrival of Mohamed VI to the throne in 1999 appears to have broken during the worst outbreak recorded in Western Sahara from Morocco and the Polisario signed the cease-fire in 1991. The Rabat government is preventing the western media, especially the Spanish media report on the situation in Laayoune after dismantling forced on Monday, Izik Agdaym camp, where thousands of Saharawi held for weeks social protest and new-style nationalist claim.
The current cerrojazo information is unparalleled. Even during the years of lead, the period of repression of the seventies and eighties after the coup attempts against Hassan II, foreign journalists have access to the country, although his movements were closely monitored by the security services. Rabat now seems to have decided to get rid of their presence on the model of neighboring Algeria: prevent them from entering the country or in this case, part of the territory under its control. The first to be expelled, the last 29, were sent to the network Al Jazeera, accused of "lack of objectivity" and "seriously affect the image of Morocco and clearly undermine their best interests, led by the issue of national territoriality. "
A Spanish correspondents have been denied the opportunity to travel to Laayoune through all kinds of tricks, with the forced complicity of the state-owned Royal Air Maroc (RAM). Officially, all was due to computer failures that canceled their reservations, oversold tickets and waiting lists sudden ... as has happened to the special envoy. And reporters who have dared to circumvent the fence, as the SER team that traveled by road to the capital of Western Sahara, have been brought to the station and removed expeditiously.
In a move with little precedent, a correspondent for ABC in Morocco since 2002, Luis de Vega, was informed yesterday that he was withdrawing the accreditation of foreign journalists. "There has been no official communication. But I have made it known that I can not work", stated yesterday Vega from Rabat. "This is a step in the process of harassment of the Spanish correspondent for trying to give a version of events is strictly us official."
From Madrid, the deputy director of ABC, Manuel Erice, added: "With this measure, the system demonstrates its limited appreciation of freedom of expression and exercise of the journalistic profession. Because this could have happened to him otherwise. Now ask that the Government of Spain to act swiftly and diplomatic skill for the return of our partner accreditation. We know that this is not going to happen from night to morning, but I do not know how far you might want to Morocco from the viewpoint of international air out such actions. "
Journalists who have tried to fly from nearby Canary Islands or simply could not get off the plane. Security forces were expected yesterday to foot ladder. That was the case of nine co-General, Spanish TV, Antena 3, Onda Cero, Agency France Press and Efe. They tried to get to Laayoune from a flight Binter Canarias taking off from Las Palmas de Gran Canarias.
"We were 62 travelers, all Saharawi and Moroccan least nine journalists. Upon arrival, the Moroccan police came, asked us our passports. And after three quarters of an hour, we returned to Spain with three fellow SER those who had arrested the previous day, "said Susana Hidalgo, Public.
The journalist of the Cadena SER, Angels Barceló, described the whole process of unfortunate, since the time of the arrest: "It started all very well, kindly invited us to accompany them from the hotel to the station. We receive the proper treatment for several hours before we put forward the role of the expulsion order and refused to sign it. So, my fellow bundled into a car. And we were left in an airport cell as if we were prisoners of them. There we spent the night until they took us to the gate. Our obligation is to try to get on each flight as possible and by whatever means. La Cadena SER is going to keep trying. In all flights departing to Laayoune.


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