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Brussels,
27/01/2007 (SPS) Saharawi human rights defender and ex-political
prisoner, Ali Salem Tamek, was received on Thursday at the Belgian
Parliament by Senator Jacinta De Rock, President of the Belgian
Parliamentarian intergroup "Peace for the Saharawi people", reported
a source from the Polisario Front’s representation in Belgium.
The Saharawi human rights activist was received before that at the
seat of the Belgian ONG "Socialist Solidarity", by Mrs. Veronique
Wemaere, person in charge for the partnerships with Western Africa
and the Maghreb, the same Source said.
Mr. Tamek discussed, with his interlocutors, the different aspects
of the repressive practices committed by the Moroccan forces against
the Saharawi citizens and th human rights violations in the occupied
territories in general.
Abduction, imprisonment, torture and confiscation of personal
documents became daily practices since 21 May 2005 after the
Intifada of Independence started, he stressed.
Mr. Tamek further denounced the brutal repression last January the
19th 2007 against the Saharawi political prisoners in t notorious
Carcel Negra in the occupied city of El Aaiun, which provoked
serious wounds on the different parts of the prisoners bodies after
the intervention against them of the Moroccan division called
"Para", specialised in exercising torture.
He also launched an "urgent appeal to all vivid forces to help in
the protection of the Saharawi civilians and to put pressures on the
Moroccan Government so as to impose the respect of the fundamental
rights in the Western Sahara".
Mr. Tamek arrived to Belgium last Saturday after a turn that led him
to South Africa, Ireland and Germany, it should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 271540 JAN SPS
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