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guarantees for foreigners the right to perform their religious rites and respects their
tenets (Article 44).
7.
89.
The Right to Information and Freedom of Expression (Article 9 of the
Charter)
The media are an important conduit through which the citizens are kept posted of
developments that are of concern to them at the national and international levels and in
the various walks of life.
90.
In recent years, the Sahrawi State provided different types of the mass media to
inform the national public opinion of the developments relating to the Western Sahara
issue at the national, regional and international levels and to brief them on the national
Sahrawi action through peaceful resistance to Morocco‟s occupation of Western Sahara
territories. In this context, the Sahrawi media sector are composed as follows:
The Audio-Visual
The Sahrawi television channel covering the Sahrawi refugee camps and
liberated Western Sahara territories;
The Sahrawi Satellite Channel RADDTV which broadcast on INTELSAT
and covering the North West Africa to Latin America and parts of Europe.
Audio
At the National Level
National Radio Broadcasting on long and short waves for 12 hours in Arabic
and Spanish