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Spanish lawmaker Isabel Serra, Portuguese Catarina Martins and Jussi Saramo from Finland were detained and subsequently expelled from El Aaiún, the main city of Western Sahara, where they were to carry out a human rights observation mission.

Last year, more than 43,000 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands, a record-breaking figure that exceeds that of 2006, during the so-called ‘Cayuco crisis’.