As she enters the third week of her hunger strike, British MP's have signed an open letter calling for Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amainatou Haidar to be allowed to return to her country. Haidar, known has the "African Gandhi", was deported from her home in occupied Western Sahara to Lanzarote by the Moroccan authorities on 14th November and has been on hunger strike in the airport terminal ever since.

Her deportation has been condemned by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as well as her friends and supporters around the world including Nobel Laureates Jose Saramago and President Ramos-Horta, film director Pedro Almodovar and actor Javier Bardem. The US State Department has also called for "a speedy determination of her legal status and full respect for due process and human rights.”

Sounding weak but defiant, Haidar has vowed to continue her hunger strike and stated that her action should not be seen as an isolated act of defiance of a single indiviudal but part of the struggle of the entire Saharawi people. “It is true that this hunger strike is about the individual right of one person to return to her home and her family” she said “But it also about the collective right denied to the Saharawi people to live freely in their native land.”

In the letter, MP's including David Drew and Jeremy Corbyn, Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee, "call on the Moroccan government to return her passport immediately and allow Aminatou Haidar to travel home to her country and to her two young children before it is too late."