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Activist On Hunger Strike At Canary Islands' Airport

by Jerome Socolovsky, NPR
December 15, 2009

A human rights campaigner who supports independence for Western Sahara is at the center of a diplomatic row between Spain and Morocco. Aminatou Haidar was refused entry to Morocco nearly a month ago, and deported to the Spanish Canary Islands, were she began a hunger strike. Doctors say Haidar's life is now in severe danger.

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