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Agadir (south of Morocco),
14/02/2007 (SPS) The Moroccan colonial court of appeal of Agadir
postponed last Monday the judgement of four Saharawi political
prisoners incarcerated in the Moroccan prison of Inzegan to April
the 16, indicated a source from the Saharawi Ministry of Occupied
Territories and Communities.
The political prisoners are: Najii Brahim, Mohamed Tamek, Driss
Mansouri and Brahim Kajout, sentenced last December 19 by the
colonial court of first instance of Agadir to 4 years imprisonment
for the first two prisoners and to 3 years imprisonment for the two
others, the same source stressed.
In the occupied city of two Saharawi political prisoners: Choubeida
Laroussi Mohamed Salem and Cheikh Benga zere brought on Tuesday
before the Moroccan colonial court of El Aaiun in a "critical" state
of health because of the huger strike they are undertaking with the
other Saharawi political prisoners fro two weeks so far, before they
were re-transported to the Carcel Negra (Black Jail) of El Aaiun.
On another hand the Saharawi political prisoners in Inzegan and
Tiznit (south of Morocco) expressed their solidarity with their
brothers in hunger strike in the different Moroccan prisons for more
than two weeks.
They also called on the UN Secretary General to enlarge the
prerogatives of the UN’s Mission for a referendum in the Western
Sahara (Minurso), to include the protection of the Saharawi citizens
in the occupied territories of the Non-Self-Governing territory and
in the South of Morocco.
The Saharawi political prisoners in Inzegan and Tiznit also launched
an appeal to democratic forces, Parliaments and international human
rights organisations to " intervene in emergency to put an end to
the human rights violations perpetrated by Morocco against the
Saharawi civilians", the text concluded.
The President of the of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, asked the
UN to intervene so as to put an end "to the flagrant human rights
violations committed by the Moroccan colonial authorities in the
Western Sahara" and called to "the immediate release" of 38 Saharawi
political prisoners "in hunger strike since January the 30th",
it should be recalled. (SPS)
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