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HRW report examines rights in the Tindouf camps

On 18 October 2014, Human Rights Watch publishes an investigation of Polisario-administered camps near Tindouf, identifying infringements of some rights and Algeria’s protection responsibility.

The report criticises military trials of civilians and documents cases of mistreatment and residual slavery-like practices. It also says it found no evidence of widespread arbitrary restrictions preventing refugees from leaving the camps.

These findings must be read together within their 2014 scope: they justify neither denying documented abuses nor claiming all residents are held against their will. An older investigation is not verification of every individual situation in 2026.

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