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President Bouteflika’s state of health is not worrying, according to doctors   

06.12.05

 

 

 
Algiers, 06/12/2005 (SPS) Algerian presidency publicised, on Monday afternoon , a medical declaration concerning the President of the Algerian State, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, signed n Paris by Professor Messaoud Zitouni, who affirms that the state of the Algerian President "is not worrying", reported Algerian Press Agency, APS.

"Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the President of the Republic, entered in Aïn-Naadja Hospital in Algiers, Saturday the 26th of November, suffering from hemorrhagic troubles resulting from gastric symptoms. After examinations and first medical cares, doctors recommended his travel abroad for more examinations", the press release stressed.

"The Head of e State travel the same day to France where he was received at the hospital of Val de Grâce in Paris. The examinations revealed a stomach ulcer. A chirurgical intervention was thus recommended and done", the same source indicated.

"The operation and the post operation stage were done in very good medical conditions", the same source indicated.

"Doctors recommended a strict an rigorous convalescence after the operation so as to get better results", the press release concluded. (SPS)

010/090/700/TRD 061031 Dec 05 SPS

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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION

Three persons arrested one wounded in new demonstrations in Boujdour  

 

 

 

Boujdour (occupied territories), 06/12/2005 (SPS) Three persons at least were arrested and another wounded during new demonstrations in Boujdour, Sunday evening, in which demonstrators claimed for the withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation from Western Sahara and Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, according to concordant sources.

 

Demonstrators, who were lifting SADR’s lags and chanting slogans against the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara, marched through the streets of the city before been brutally dispersed by the Moroccan forces backed by Moroccan settlers armed with knives and truncheons, the same sources indicated.

 

On another hand, Moroccan forces of occupation ransacked the house of Mr. Brahim Salem Ould Ahmed Miské, to arrest Saharawi citizens Salek Larroussi and Blal El Mahjoub Ahmed Miské.

 

In this wave of arrests, Saharawi students Mohamed Babeyt, was arrested while Mr. Jemji Mohamed was brutalised by the Moroccan police, who abandoned him bleeding in the street, the same sources affirmed.

 

The families of the arrestees, supported by Saharawi young people in Boujdour, organised a sit-in in front of the central police station of the city to denounce the barbarous intervention against their sons and to call for their immediate release.

 

All popular neighbourhoods of the city are sealed by the forces of police and gendarmerie, and a state of exception was declared, it was said. (SPS)

 

020/090/000/TRD 061530 Dec 05 SPS

 

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The city of TanTan shocked about the assassination of a Saharawi citizen by Moroccan police  

 

 

 

 

TanTan (south Morocco), 06/11/2005(SPS) The city of TanTan was shocked about the assassination of Saharawi citizen, Likhlipha Abba Cheikh, Saturday evening in TanTan, by Moroccan policeman Ahmed Nejib, for having refused to give him bribe, reported concordant sources.

 

35 years old, father to two children, Likhlipha Abba Cheikh was wlking in a street near his house when a Moroccan policeman stopped him and ordered him to pay a sum of money. Mr. Likhlipha, who did not have the sum said he can not and continued his way but the Moroccan policeman attacked him an started beating him to death with his luncheon.

 

The next day, in the early morning, all the inhabitants of TanTan, rallied in a sit-in in front o the Mayoralty of the city to denounce this brutal crime and chanting slogans calling for Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and to the respect of human rights.

 

The sit-in, which continued to a very late hour of the evening turned to be a big demonstration that marched through the streets of the city, starting from the Street of the Coasts, passing by Hassan II Street and Moctar Soussi Street before ending in the Bir Nzaran Avenue, where the crime was committed.

 

In the place of the crime, the demonstrators stopped for a last prayer on the soul of the victim and on Martyr Hamdi Lembarki, another Saharawi young man who was assassinated last October the 29th in El Aaiun and who is still not buried because Moroccan authorities fears Saharawi population organise a popular funeral for him. (SPS)

 

040/090/000/TRD 060312 Dec 05 SPS.

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