The Congress of Deputies has registered a non-legislative proposal to urge the Government to denounce the situation of Sahrawi political prisoners held in Moroccan prisons. The initiative seeks to pressure for their immediate release and to bring visibility to a conflict that has remained unresolved for decades in Western Sahara.
Border surveillance technology: digital control as a tool 🤖
While diplomacy debates human rights, Morocco has reinforced its borders with advanced surveillance systems: reconnaissance drones, motion sensors, and facial recognition software. These tools, supplied by European companies, allow almost total control of movements in the area. Technology, far from facilitating transparency, becomes a digital wall that hinders independent verification of arbitrary detentions.
Political prisoners: the escape plan no one programs 🚪
The non-legislative proposal calls for the release of Sahrawi prisoners, but in Congress no one has suggested installing an emergency exit button in Moroccan prisons. While politicians draft texts, prisoners are doing overtime in their cells. If technology can control borders, perhaps they could program an update that includes a freedom mode for certain inmates. But that would be asking too much of software designed to hold, not to release.