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Several NGOs called on Thursday in Geneva for the international community to pressure Algeria to guarantee the fundamental rights of the populations detained in the Tindouf camps. This appeal was made during the general debate on the annual report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the world, on the occasion of the 57th ordinary session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), held in Geneva under the presidency of Morocco. During the interactive debate, which was open to civil society, the NGOs warned of the "alarming" humanitarian conditions in the Tindouf camps, where the populations suffer "serious violations" of their most basic rights, as well as the "systematic" misappropriation of aid by the Polisario leadership "with the connivance of the Algerian army, which has besieged the camps to prevent any exits." Their interventions, interspersed with poignant testimonies, highlighted in particular the repression campaigns against young people who dare, at the risk of their lives, to denounce these actions on social networks, citing the numerous cases of kidnapping, arbitrary disappearance, and torture, in addition to the crying lack of food. In these conditions, some of them have no choice but to join "armed...