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El Aaiun (occupied territories),
21/02/2007 (SPS) The Moroccan colonial court of appeal in the
occupied city of El Aaiun postponed on Tuesday the trial of six
Saharawi political prisoners and human rights activists to next
March the 6th, indicated a press release by the Association of the
Saharawi Victims of the Flagrant Human Rights Violations Committed
by the Moroccan State (ASVDH).
The concerned are the Secretary General of the ASVDH, Brahim SABBAR,
in addition to Ahmed Sbai, Abdessalam Loumadi, Elhafed Toubali,
Mohamed Lehbib Elgasmi and Ahmed Salem Ahmeidat, who appeared before
the Moroccan colonial court of appeal, the same source added.
The Lawyers of the political prisoners had before retired fro the
case because the Saharawi political prisoners refused to speak to
the court unless "the latter undertakes an investigation on the
ill-treatment they undergo inside the Carcel negra (Black Jail)", it
should be recalled.
On another hand, the Saharawi political prisoners pursue their
hunger strike since January the 30th to protest against the
ill-treatment they are subjected to in the Moroccan prisons, while
the state of health of the majority of them is really deteriorated",
the ASVDH regretted.
On another hand, the Swedish Journalist, Mr. Lars Bjork, arrested by
the Moroccan authorities last Sunday in El Aaiun was released on
Monday at 01.00 GMT and interpellated on Tuesday, the same source
indicated.
He is still in the station of the criminal police, "which seems to
be determined to suit him with alleged accusations within the
framework of the general policy of pressures against the foreign
press and in a perspective of maintaining the Medias and military
siege imposed on the territory" since more than 30 years by Morocco,
the same source added.
Reporters without Borders (RFS) had denounced in a press release
published on Tuesday the arrest of Mr. Lars and asked for his
immediate release, the ASVDH stressed. (SPS)
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