 Foreign journalists and visiting missions have been prevented from visiting the territory and in some instances deported from it.In 2004, Moroccan newsman Ali Lmrabet was sentenced to heavy fines and ten-year ban on practicing journalism, for referring in an article to the Sahrawis in Tindouf, Algeria, as being "refugees" rather than "sequestered" or "kidnapped", as is the official Moroccan position.Sahrawi human rights organizations have been refused permission to operate in Morocco