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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 06/10/2007 (SPS) The
Collective of the Saharawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA)
postponed on Friday its Constitutive Conference that was planed
for this Sunday because the Moroccan authorities of the occupied
city of El Aaiun refused to receive the notice for the
organisation of the conference.
The CODESA issued a press release on the subject, of which SPS
received a copy:
"The Collective of the Saharawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA)
Constitutive Conference
Preparing Committee
El Aaiun/ Western Sahara
05 October 2007-10-05
Communiqué
The Moroccan authorities in El Aaiun/ Western Sahara violate
CODESA right to hold its Constitutive conference.
As soon as the Preparing committee has finished the financial
and moral preparations for the organisation of the Constitutive
Conference of the Collective of the Saharawi Human Rights
Defenders (CODESA), which was planed to take place on Sunday 07
October 2007, under the theme "Permanent struggle for the
protection and promotion of Human rights values", Congress of
the Saharawi victim of disappearance "El Hefz Hamma Mbarek", the
Moroccan authorities adopted some measures of pressures and
harassment to impede the normal holding of conference:
1- Represented by the Pacha of El Aaiun city and the Caïd of the
8 District, the Moroccan authorities refused to receive the
notice that defines the place and time of the holding of
CODESA’s Constitutive Conference.
2- They exercised pressures on the owner of the house where the
Democratic Confederation of Workers (CDT) is based, so as he
refuses the holding of he conference in his property.
3- They forced the section of the CDT in El Aaiun to go back on
its decision to enable the hooding of the conference in CDT seat
after it accepted to do it.
The Preparing Committee considers the aforementioned measures a
direct obstruction to the rights of association and gathering,
and declares to the public opinion the following:
- Postponement of the Constitutive Conference to a future date.
- Pursuit of the works of the Preparing Committee until the
holding of the Conference.
- Denunciation of the obstacles and harassment adopted by the
Moroccan authorities against CODESA aiming to quite the voices
of Saharawi human rights activists.
- Attachment to our legitimate right to association and
gathering.
- Calls on all the participants to the conference and militants
to continue the mobilisation and the struggle for the defence of
our legitimate right to the organisation of the Constitutive
Conference.
- Expresses deep appreciation of the efforts and steady support
provided by may international and regional associations and
organisations as well as the democratic forces, and calling on
them to exercise more pressures on the Moroccan State to compel
it respect the human rights in Western Sahara.
Ali Salem Tamek
President of the Preparing Committee
Cell phone: 0021215997571
Aminatou Haidar
Membre of the Preparing Committee
Cell phone: 0021277457114". (SPS)
020/090/110 061100 OCT 07 SPS
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