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El Aaiun (occupied territories),
18/12/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Association of the Victims of the
Flagrant Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH)
"energetically" denounce tortures perpetrated by the Moroccan forces
of occupation against the defenceless Saharawi civilians in the
occupied cities of Smara and El Aaiun, who were commemorating the
International Day of Human Rights (December 10).
It also condemned this "savage aggression against civilians,
including Saharawi human rights activists, preventing them from
peacefully demonstrating to advocate their inalienable right to
self-determination and independence, an aggression that contradicts
all international human rights conventions", the association
indicated in a press release publicised on Monday.
The ASVDH calls on the UN "to undertake the necessary measures for
the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of
the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’, elaborated after a visit
by its mission to the Western Sahara last May".
The Saharawi NGO regretted the implication of the Moroccan judicial
authorities with the secret services in the rejection of hundreds
complaints presented by Saharawi victims of torture, the same text
said.
It renewed its "total" solidarity with the Saharawi political
prisoners in Moroccan jails, calling to their immediate release and
denouncing the recent iniquitous trial of the political detainee,
Choubida Laroussi, who was sentenced 18 months imprisonment.
The ASVDH also condemned "the savage aggression" by the Moroccan
forces of repression against the Saharawi political prisoners,
Toubali el Hafed, ElGasmi Mohamed, Ahmeidatt Ahmed Salem and Loumadi
Abdessalam during their transfer from the Moroccan colonial court to
their cell in the Carcel negra in the occupied city of El Aaiun.
The Saharawi NGO finally launched an appeal to international human
rights organisations to put pressures on Morocco to compel it
respect human rights in the occupied territories of the Western
Sahara. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 181150 DEC 06 SPS
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