 Polisario had begun releasing a few hundred prisoners at 1984, and continued with that liberations during the 1990s and 2000s, in what were referred by countries like USA, Italy, Ireland, Libya, Qatar or Spain as ""humanitarian gestures"", but its refusal to release the last prisoners remained under criticism from the United Nations.In its report, the French foundation produced detailed accusations of torture, forced labour, arbitrary detentions and summary executions of captured soldiers, and claimed that these and other systematic abuses had evaded the Red Cross.Most of the crimes had allegedly been committed in the 1980s, but some were of a later date.