Art Tifariti is an opportunity to defend Saharawi people’s right to self-determination

--(Sahara Press Service-Special Envoy)-- The President of the Association of Friends of the Saharawi people in the capital of Andalusia, Seville, Fernando Berita, said that the Seminar “ArtTifariti” is "an opportunity to defend Saharawi people’s right to self-determination". In a statement to the SPS, Fernando said that "ArtTifariti is not a neutral art, it’s in fact a way to defend peoples’ rights, in particular the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination". He denounced the repression imposed by the Moroccan authorities against defenceless Saharawi citizens in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, who demonstrate peacefully demanding their right to freely choose their future. In this regard, Fernando paid tribute to the Saharawi human rights activists, including Aminetou Haidar, who has just been awarded the Robert Kennedy Human Rights Award in recognition for her activism in favour of the respect of human rights in Western Sahara. On the other hand, POLISARIO Front’s representative in Andalusia, Bouchraya Abidine, said that the massive presence of artists from different continents, will help promote the just cause of Western Sahara at the international level. The Saharawi diplomat reiterated that ArtTifariti "is another front and a peaceful expression that backs up the rights of the Saharawi people to self-determination", denouncing the repression perpetrated by Morocco against Saharawi citizens, including the Saharawi human rights defenders in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, Southern Morocco and the Moroccan universities. The second edition of the ArtTifariti continues in the town of Tifariti in the Saharawi liberated territories, in the presence of international artists from different continents who came to express, through art, their support and solidarity with the Saharawi.