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 | | Erik Hagen, writer for the Norwegian magazine "Verdensmagasinet", was arrested on April 5 by Moroccan security forces in the capital of Western Sahara, l’Ayoune, and deported to the neighbouring country of Mauritania. |
 | | Hagen was in the Moroccan occupied territory to interview human rights activists and former political prisoners, among them Sidi Mohammed Daddach, who two years ago was awarded the Rafto Prize for his lifelong struggle for an independent Western Sahara. |
 | | Even when the police interrogated Erik Hagen, he felt the significance of the Rafto Prize: “At the police station, I was interrogated about what I was doing in Western Sahara, who I had been talking to, where I had been, what I had previously done in Norway and what plans I had. |
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