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El Aaiun (occupied territories),
17/03/2007 (SPS) The Moroccan colonial authorities abusively
transferred the Saharawi political prisoner, Laaroussi Choubeida, on
Friday from the Carcel Negra (black jail) of the occupied city of El
Aaiun to the local prison of Tiznit (Morocco), reported the Saharawi
Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Human Rights Violations
Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH- in its French abbreviation).
The family of the political detainee was informed on Friday that its
son was transferred to the local prison of Tiznit, Morocco. Members
of the family affirmed they had visited Laaroussi on Thursday and
"that he did not have information about the transfer", the same
source underlined.
The family expressed "concern about the fate of its son, who was
supposed to have a chirurgical intervention because of some problems
he had due to the hunger strike he undertook with his comrades the
others political prisoner since January the 30, 2007", it was added.
This "forced deportation, was qualified by the ASVDH as "a violation
to the Saharawi political prisoner’s right", "is added to a set of
acts of vendetta against Choubeida Laaroussi, which varied from the
ill-treatment in the Carcel Negra, passing by the iniquitous trial
and now the abusive transfer to the local prison of Tiznit".
Mr. Choubeida, who had announced his rejection of the Moroccan
nationality, was condemned to 18 months imprisonment. This sentence
was confirmed last Tuesday by the court of appeal of the occupied
city of El Aaiun, the Saharawi NGO recalled.
The Saharawi political prisoner was arrested in the occupied city of
Dakhla last March 2006 and transferred to the notorious Carcel Negra
of El Aaiun for having peacefully demonstrated to advocate he
Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence, it
should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/110 171345 MAR 07 SPS
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