SPS EUROPE/WESTERN
SAHARA/HUMAN RIGHTS
Tamek carries out a visit to Europe to raise awareness on Moroccan
human rights violations in Western Sahara
07.05.05
Geneva, 07/05/2005 (SPS)
Saharawi human rights activist and former political prisoner, Ali Salem
Tamek, is carrying a visit to Europe so as to raise European public
opinion’s awareness on Moroccan authorities’ flagrant human rights
violations in occupied territories of Western Sahara and south Morocco.
To this end, the Saharawi activist met, in Geneva, with people in
charge of diverse organisations of human rights’ defence like the High
Commissioner for human rights of the United Nations, the International
Committee against Torture (CAT), the International Federation of Human
rights (FIDH) and the International Office for the Respect of Human
rights in the Western Sahara (BIRDHSO).
In Brussels, M. Tamek, also President of the local committee of support
to the international campaign for human rights’ protection in the
Western Sahara, has been received in the seat of the European
Parliament, in May the 3rd 4th, by deputies of different
countries, especially from Austria, Spain and Sweden among others. He
also met with representatives of diverse political groups within the
European Parliament.
On another hand, Mr. Tamek held other meetings with people in charge of
human rights' organisations, mainly with the Co-ordinator of Amnesty
International in Brussels.
All these encounters, it matching sources said, focussed on the last
developments of the human rights situation in the Saharawi territories
under Moroccan occupation. They also tackled the recent campaigns of
intimidation carried out by the Moroccan authorities against Saharawi
activists and militants.
All the personalities encountered, said Mr. Ali Salem Tamek in a press
release he publicised in May the 4th, "have expressed their
preoccupation with respect to the deterioration of the human rights
situation in occupied territories of Western Sahara and south Morocco,
and they have compromised themselves to use all possible means to break
the wall of silence Morocco is imposing on the region." (SPS)
SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE