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Haidar Returns Home After Month-Long Hunger Strike

The Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar has returned home after a more than month-long hunger strike that brought her close to death. Haidar began her hunger strike after Moroccan officials barred her from returning to Western Sahara unless she recognize Moroccan sovereignty over her homeland. On Thursday, Morocco relented under a deal brokered with France and Spain. Haidar was released from intensive care and flown to the Western Sahara city of Laayoune earlier today. Haidar called her return a triumph for international law, for human rights, for international justice and for the cause of Western Sahara.