Western Sahara hunger striker refuses medical care

A Western Sahara independence activist has announced that she is refusing all medical care - three weeks into a hunger strike in Spain. Aminatou Haidar has been fasting at Lanzarote airport since she was expelled to Spain's Canary Islands by the Moroccan authorities. They denied the activist entry to Western Sahara - a disputed region. Morocco also confiscated her passport when she refused to define herself as Moroccan on an official form. Now she has increased the pressure on the Spanish government to resolve her situation, declaring that she will not accept any more medical help at all. That decision follows what Ms Haidar calls a "terrifying" visit by a team of Spanish lawyers and medics on Sunday. The hunger-striker says they came to assess the possibility of force-feeding her, instead of forcing Morocco to allow her home.