Aminatou Haidar
Aminatou Ali Ahmed Haidar , sometimes known as Aminetou, Aminatu or Aminetu, is a Sahrawi human rights activist and an advocate of the independence of Western Sahara. She is often called the Sahrawi Gandhi or Sahrawi Pasionaria for her nonviolent protests. She is the president of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders . She was imprisoned from 1987 to 1991 and from 2005 to 2006 on charges related to her independence advocacy. In 2009, she attracted international attention when she staged a hunger strike in Lanzarote Airport after being denied reentry into Moroccan Western Sahara. Haidar has won several international human rights awards for her work, including the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and the 2009 Civil Courage Prize.
While her parents lived in TanTan, a small city south of Morocco with significant Sahrawi population where she passed her childhood, Aminatou was born in 1966 in Akka, Morocco, her grandmothers town, due to a bedouin tradition. She is not member of the Polisario Front, although she considers the movement as the only representative of the Sahrawi people. She is divorced with two children, Hayat and Mohammed.
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