SPS OCCUPIED
TERRITORIES/HUMAN RIGHTS/CAMPAGINE A Saharawi Committee launches a
campaign for the protection of human rights activists in occupied
territories
03.12.04
El Aaiun (occupied territories),
03/12/04 (SPS) The Local Committee of Support to the International
Campaign for the protection of Human rights defenders in Western Sahara
(CSCIPDH) declared, Wednesday in occupied El Aaiun, its decision to
launch a campaign of support to Saharawi human rights activists on
December the 4th, 2004, calling international organisations and
associations for support.
In a letter addressed to the Secretary General of Amnesty
International, the CSCIPDH declared its decision to "launch a set of
demonstrations, sit-ins, hunger strikes, calls and conferences,
starting from December the 4th 2004, within the framework of a campaign
of solidarity and support to the international campaign for the
protection of Saharawi human rights defenders", in occupied territories.
The Committee expressed its "preoccupation about human rights flagrant
violations in Western Sahara, reaffirming our willingness to provide
Saharawi human rights activists with the needed solidarity and
support", added the letter.
The text denounced "the persistence of human rights violations" in
occupied territories of Western Sahara, "especially forced kidnappings,
arbitrary arrests, iniquitous trials and other violations of social,
politic and economic rights", to which Saharawi citizens are daily
subjected under Moroccan military occupation.
On another hand, the Committee noted with regret the lack of
earnestness of the Committee of fairness and reconciliation, recently
constituted by the Moroccan State to resolve human rights cases
resulting from the gloomy period of the years of Hassan II. This
Committee, the text added "still refuse to study the memorandum
presented by the CSCIPDH on human right violations" in occupied
territories of Western Sahara since the Moroccan military occupation in
1975.
The Committee finally called Amnesty General's Secretary General to
support this new campaign and "exert pressures on Moroccan Government",
so as to put an end to "human rights abuses and violations, which
target the security and stability of the lives of Saharawi citizens,
especially human rights activists" in occupied territories of Western
Sahara, concluded the communiqué.
The Local Committee of Support to the International Campaign for the
protection of Human rights in Western Sahara" is the name chosen by
tens of Saharawi lawyers, trade unionists and former political
prisoners in occupied territories for this non-governmental
organisation.
The constitution of the NGO was declared in El Aaiun, occupied capital
of Western Sahara, on November the 8th order to "protect the Saharawi
civil population subjected to repression in Western Sahara and in
Morocco", announced a communiqué publicised then, of which SPS
received a copy.
Chaired by the former Saharawi political prisoner, Ali Salem Tamek, the
Bureau of the Committee is based in El Aaiun and is composed by 13
members, it was indicated.
"The Committee launch an appeal to the most active sectors of the
Saharawi society, to all democrats and all human rights organisations
to support the International Campaign of solidarity with Saharawi human
rights activists and so as to put an end to Moroccan authorities'
systematic repression they are subjected to", it should be recalled.
(SPS)
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