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10:17 CAT | 02 Jun 2021
FILE - The Polisario leader was being treated for Covid-19 in Spain. [File photo: AFP]
The leader of a Western Saharan separatist group has left a hospital in Spain and is flying back to Algeria, a spokesman for the group said.
The move comes after a judge in Madrid turned down a request by prosecutors to detain the Polisario Front leader, Brahim Ghali, in relation to alleged human rights abuses.
Mr Ghali was being treated for Covid-19 in Spain.
He denies abuses in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria where Polisario is based.
Mr Ghali’s presence in Spain has angered Morocco, which claims sovereignty over Western Sahara – a former Spanish colony.
Madrid has accused Rabat of retaliating by letting thousands of migrants flood into Spain’s north African cities of Ceuta and Melilla
Source: BBC
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