Page 1 Report on the Forced Deportation of AminatouHaidar, a Former Sahrawi Human Rights Activists from Western Sahara On 15 November 2009, the Moroccan authorities detained AminatouHaidar (43) a former prisoner of conscience and human rights activist, Chairperson of the Grouping of Human Rights Advocates and Laureate of Robert Kennedy Award for Human Rights in 2008 and Civilian Bravery Award in 2009, USA. She was detained at the Airport as she disembarked from her flight from Las Palmas in the Canary Island, according to members of her family who came to meet her at the Airport. She was surrounded by different Moroccan Intelligence operatives. Aminatou Haidar’s family members waited for her arrival for at least one hour after the disembankment of passengers, but to no avail. Only their daughter and two Spanish journalist taking pictures of her as she disembarked, remained behind. She was harassed and detained by the Moroccan Police. In a dangerous precedent, the Moroccan authorities on 14 November 2009 forcibly deported Aminatou Haidar from El Aaiun Airport, Western Sahara and prevented her from her legitimate right to enter the city and meet her family and children, Mohamed and Hayat, 13 and 15years of age, respectively. This serious and blatant violation happened after her detention at the Airport for 24 hours. She was subjected to a series of interrogations by the Moroccan Intelligence Personnel and psychological pressures to force her to confess that she was Moroccan in line with the parochial chauvinistic policy applied by Morocco against Sahrawi human rights activists and other citizens and political detainees for their defence of the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination.