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SPS Three Saharawi political prisoners in hunger strike in the Carcel negra 07.06.05
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 07/06/2006 (SPS) Three Saharawi political prisoners, Ahmed El Ahmedi, Laroussi Cheibada and Abderrahmane Lekouara, started a hunger strike, since Sunday, in solidarity with two other political prisoners, Deddi Hmada and Ahmed El Moussaoui, already in hunger strike and in "very bad" state in the Moroccan Carcel Negra (black jail), concordant sources indicated.
The three Saharawi political prisoners expressed their "unconditional solidarity" with Deddi Hmada and Ahmed El Moussaoui, and asked for the "amelioration of the conditions of detentions and the ending of the ill-treatment and inhumane of the practices" they are subjected to by the Moroccan colonial authorities.
Two other young Saharawis: Ali Afif and Hamoudi Mohamed Ahmed (El Issaou) were forcibly abducted by the Moroccan forces of occupation from their school, "Ibn Zouhr", in the occupied city of Smara.
The two young Saharawis were tortured by the Moroccan police in the middle of the street, led to a police station where every were subjected to interrogatories under the command of the Moroccan torturers: Chenkli ad Simo, before been abandoned at dawn in "a very bad state" in a neighbourhood of the occupied cultural capital of the Western Sahara, Smara, the same source said.
Mr. Hamoudi Mohamed Ahmed El Issaou, who is suffering from a fracture in his leg, is in a "critical state of health without medical care", according to his family.
On another hand, the Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of Bojador, organised a demonstration, on Monday, advocating the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence.
These demonstrations, to which hundreds women and youngsters took part, were organised few days before the commemoration by the Saharawi people of the 30th anniversary of the fall in the field of honour of Martyr El Ouali Moustapha Sayed, Founder of Polisario Front, near the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott last June the 9th, 1976.
This anniversary will be organised in Aghoueinit, the liberated territory of the Saharawi Republic, it should be recalled.
The Moroccan forces of repression intervened as usual making use of excessive violence to disperse the peaceful demonstrators who were advocating the respect of human rights in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara and "the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation from the Western Sahara. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 070940 June 06 SPS
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SPS Five persons arrested during demonstrations in the occupied cities of the Western Sahara
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 07/06/2006 (SPS) Five Saharawi citizens at least were arrested in the occupied cities of El Aaiun and Smara during demonstrations that took place on Monday evening to Tuesday early morning in the two occupied cities, to claim for the respect of human rights in the Non-Self-Governing territory, concordant sources indicated.
The demonstrators raised the flags of the Saharawi Republic and chanted slogans advocating the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence.
The Moroccan forces of repression "brutally" intervened in El Aaiun to disperse the demonstrators and arrested the Saharawi citizens: Mohamed M'barek Dahmed, Farakh Brahim, Ijna Baca and Harbi Tayeb, who was led from "La Playa" (El Aaiun beach) to "an unknown destination", according to his family.
A fifth Saharawi citizen was arrest by the Moroccan colonial forces in the occupied city of Smara. The arrested citizen is: Mahanna Brahim, who was led to the police station of the city and tortured before been abandoned by the Moroccan agents in a street, it was added.
In the occupied capital of the Western Sahara, El Aaiun, the Moroccan penitentiary authorities of the Carcel negra did not allow the families of the Saharawi political prisoners to visit their sons and asked the Moroccan police to disperse them, the same sources added.
On another hand, the same sources indicated that Moroccan forces of intervention had left the city of Tantan (South of Morocco) heading towards the cultural capital of the Western Sahara, Smara, to intimidate the Saharawi citizens who advocate their people’s right to freely decide over their future.
In another subject, a new Committee for the defence of human rights was created last Thursday in Smara, composed of ten persons in addition to a President, Mr. Vekou Lebaihi, it should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 071055 June 06 SPS
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SPS Tamek: warns about a possible "assassination" of Aminetou Haidar after her return to El Aaiun
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain), 07/06/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi human rights activist, Alí Salem Tamek, warned in a statement to "La Verdad de Canarias" that his compatriot, Aminetou Haidar, who is undertaking a turn in Europe since last May, may be "assassinated" when she will return to the occupied capital of the Western Sahara, El Aaiun.
Mr. Tamek launched an appeal to all democratic forces and international human rights organisations, to double the efforts for the protection of Aminetou Haidar.
Answering a question related to the Spanish Government’s change of position vis-à-vis of the conflict in the Western Sahara, Mr. Tamek stressed that the current silence of the Moncloa is a way to encourage Rabat to continue its repression and violating of the Saharawi people’s rights.
Mr. Tamek stressed the historic and cultural ties between the two peoples, Saharawi and Canrian, adding that "the support of the Canaries people all along the last years will remain in the collective memory of the Saharawi people, thing that the Canarian Government can not ignore". (SPS)
070/090/100/TRD 071000 June 06 SPS
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SPS The Spanish Congress supports a solution based on the Saharawi people self-determination
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Madrid, 7/06/ 2006 (SPS) The Spanish Congress of Deputies approved, on Tuesday evening after debates on the state of nation, a set of resolutions, including two on the conflict of the Western Sahara, in which the Congress reiterated its support to a solution to the conflict on the basis of "the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination".
The first draft resolution, voted by the majority of the members of the Chamber, was presented by the Spanish Parliamentarian group of “Coalition Canarias”.
The resolution urges to the "support of the legitimate rights of the Saharawi people to exercise their recognised right to self-determination through a free referendum without any kinds of constraints".
It also called the Government to express "a total support to the UN Security Council’s resolution 1495 (Baker Plan II), which is unanimously approved and which represents the consensus of the international community to put an end to this tragedy that languishes for more than 30 years".
The resolution underlines the need "to actively defend the agreements decided by the international forums, in front of the concerned parties, the countries of the region, and especially vis-à-vis the Moroccan Government".
"This is the only way to honour the historic, legal and moral debt towards the innocent victims of this tragedy, the Saharawi population, to respect the international legality and support a climate of security, social development, the respect of human rights and democracy in the region", the text added.
It called for the intervention of the UN, the European Union and the African Union so as to "establish the international legality and human rights" in this Non-Self-Governing territory.
The second draft resolution, also adopted by the majority of deputies, was jointly presented by the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE- in power) and the Izquierda unida-ICV (Unified Left for Cataloni-Green).
The resolution called on the Spanish Government to "support the action" of the UN Secretary General and his Personal Envoy as well as the MINURSO (UN Mission for a referendum in the Western Sahara), and to "defend the necessity of reaching a just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution that provides for the self-determination of t Saharawi people, within the framework of the UN and in conformity with the terms of the UN Security Council resolution 1675 of April the 28, 2006". (SPS)
020/090/700/TRD 071200 June 06 SPS
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