It focuses especially on the question of the Sahrawi "disappeared", and had campaigned extensively in the past for the release of political prisoner Muhammad Daddach (imprisoned by Morocco between 1975 and 2002).

[1] AFAPREDESA has its headquarters at the Sahrawi refugee camps at Tindouf Province, Algeria, where it was founded in August 1989, and a delegation office in Bilbao, Spain.

[3] After Spain withdrew from its colony in 1975, Morocco initiated an antinationalist campaign in Western Sahara.

Reliable sources put their number as around a few hundred persons, but it is difficult to quantify this, as some whole families were among the victims.

The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues thinks the figure may be as high as 1500, which would represent 1% of the total population of the country in 1974.