Elkouria Amidane

Overview

Elkouria “Rabab” Amidane born El Aaiun, Western Sahara, Morocco September 29, 1985. Nonviolent student activist. Awarded Norwegian Student Peace Prize, 2009; Swedish Ordfront Democracy Prize, 2011.

Quotations

“I was detained and tortured very much but that does not affect my life, no, it gives me the power to struggle against it and now I even have the feeling that I can sacrifice my life for my people.” (Joanna Bidar interview, Dec. 14, 2007; photo vest-sahara.no)