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SPS Saharawi human rights activist, Aminatou Haidar at the Belgian Senate 08.06.05
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Brussels, 8/06/2006 (SPS) The Belgian Senate organised a meeting on the situation of the Western Sahara, on Wednesday, with the presence of Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, the Saharawi human rights activist, who is undertaking a few days visit to Brussels, reported Algerian Press Agency, APS.
The meeting organised by the Fleming Senator Mrs. Jacinta de Roek, President of the Belgian Parliamentarian intergroup "Peace for the Saharawi people", gathered many personalities, including Belgian deputies, specialist politician, Sara Eyckmans, a delegate of Belgian Amnesty international, Francis Schuman, as well as a Representative of the Moroccan Political Party, "Ennhadj Edimoukrati" (the Democratic Path), a party that supports Saharawi people’s right to self-determination.
Mrs. Aminatou Haidar informed the audience about the violations the Saharawi populations are subjected to under the Moroccan occupation. She denounced police brutality against all the categories of the populations, adolescents, women or old persons blamed for been supporting the independence of the Western Sahara.
On his part, Polisario Front Representative and Minister Councillor delegated to Europe, Mr. Mohamed Sidati, denied the "raves of the Moroccan propaganda", which talk about pretended Saharawi demonstrations in the Saharawi refugee camps. He affirmed that these camps "are not isolated" and are "wide open and transparent".
On his part, the Representative of the Moroccan Party "Ennhadj Edimoukrati", Mohamed Belfilalia, took the opposite claim of the Moroccan propaganda, which pretends that there is a consensus of all the Moroccan opinion on the Western Sahara.
He asserted that there is no such consensus on this subject, which remains a "taboo" that exposes any Moroccan who supports the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination or independence to reprisals.
The Responsible of the Saharawi question in Amnesty international denied the spread ideas according to which the possible independence of the Western Sahara will provoke the destabilisation of the region.
He underlined that the birth of new States, as it was the case of Monti-Negro in Europe, and other States after the fall of the wall of Berlin, did not destabilise Europe, the effect was in fact the opposite.
Regarding the EU-Morocco fishing agreement, which was enforced on June the 1st 2006, the Belgian Senator, Pierre Galland, President of the European Coordination of support to the Saharawi people, developed an analysis that reduces the meaning and implications of this agreement.
Though it was adopted, Mr. Galland stressed, many oppositions were declared for te first time, unlike the 5 previous accords. On the first hand, the agreement did not realise the unanimity within the 25 members States of the EU. Countries such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Austria formulated many objections, and even open oppositions (Sweden), while many European Parliamentarians voted against this accord (189 Parliamentarians).
On another hand, he added, the EP like the other European bodies isin favour of the UN’s peace process that should lead to the Saharawi people’s self-determination s planed for by the UN Security Council.
During her visit to Belgium, it should be recalled, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar met with the President of the European Parliament and was strongly applauded in the European Parliament.
Mrs. Haidar, who is nominated for the second time to the prestigious EP’s human rights award, Sakharov Price for freedom, expressed her satisfaction about the support expressed by the highest authorities within this European institution to the European Parliament’s mission for the investigation on the human rights violations in the Western Sahara, which will help to lift the Medias black out imposed on the occupied territories by the Moroccan colonial authorities. (SPS)
020/090/700/TRD 081020 June 06 SPS
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SPS Saharawi students in Rabat denounce Moroccan repression in occupied territories of the Western Sahara and south of Morocco
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Rabat (Morocco), 08/06/2006 (SPS) Saharawi Students in Rabat denounced, ON Wednesday, the crimes and inhumane practices committed by the Moroccan authorities against the Saharawi helpless citizens in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, in the South of Morocco and in the Moroccan universities, according to a press release publicised by the students on Wednesday.
They also called on Morocco to "release all the Saharawi political prisoners, still in custody in Moroccan prisons, to account for the persons reported missing, as well as to lift the Medias and military siege imposed on the territory since its military invasion by Morocco in October 1975".
The Saharawi students in Rabat expressed their "unconditional" support the Saharawi people’s rights to self-determination and independence, rejecting any other solution that would not provide for this right, which is recognised by the international community, the press release stressed.
The Saharawi students finally launched an appeal to all democratic forces to intervene in "emergency" so as to put an end to the sufferings of the Saharawi people in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, in the South of Morocco and in the Moroccan universities. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 081330 June 06 SPS
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SPS Saharawi political prisoners in Inzegan will start an unlimited hunger strike on Wednesday
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Inzegan (South of Morocco), 08/06/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi political prisoners, in the Moroccan prison of Inzegan, declared on Wednesday that they start an "unlimited" hunger strike, starting from June the 7th 2006, to denounce the inhumane conditions of detention they are suffering and to protest against the harassment they are daily subjected to by the Moroccan colonial authorities.
Six of the twelve Saharawi political prisoners incarcerated in the prison of Inzegan, were imprisoned with Moroccan minor criminals in separated buildings, where the number of the detainees is "very high" to the point that these political prisoners do not find places where to sleep most of the time, the prisoners declared in après release they publicised on Wednesday, of which SPS received a copy.
The Saharawi political prisoners, it should be recalled, who are still maintained in custody for two months "without judgment", had announced a 48 hunger strike last June the 1st, 2006.
The prisoners are: Najiaa Lebchir, EL Khorchi Weissi, Banga Cheikh, Bourgaa Omar, Labyad Hamdi, AL Mansouri Driss, Tamek Mohamed, Kjout Brahim, Bakrimi Mustapha, Lehmam Salama, Lefkir Lahassan and Rguibi Lekhlifi.
On another hand, the Saharawi Human Rights Defenders Committee (CDSDH), based in El Aaiun, called on all the international bodies to "intervene in emergency", so as to exercise "pressures" on the Moroccan Government so as to respect the human rights in the Western Sahara.
The CDSDH also reaffirmed that the Saharawi political prisoners in the Carcel negra suffer "very bad conditions of detention". It further denounced the "forced deportation" of a group of these political prisoners in the prison of El Aaiun towards other Moroccan prisons. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 311240 Mai 06 SPS
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SPS Opening of the annual conference of the Saharawi communities abroad
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Aghoueinit (liberated territories), 08/006/2006 (SPS) The annual conference of the Saharawi communities abroad opened on Thursday in Aghoueinit, in the liberated territories of he Saharawi Republic, with the presence of the President of the State, Mohamed Abdelaziz, the President of the Parliament, Mahfoudh Ali Beiba, the Polisario Front person in charge for political orientation, Khatri Addouh, the Minister of Occupied territories and communities abroad, Khalil Sidi Mohamed, the Minister for Defence, Mohamed Lamine Bouhali and other high Saharawi political personalities.
Intervening at the opening of this conference on the "considerable contribution of the Saharawi communities abroad to the struggle of the Saharawi people for their freedom and independence since the beginning", the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, underlined that "all efforts should be invested now in the support of the intifada of independence, which started since May the 21st 2005 in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara".
Many speakers underlined "the necesity of resuming war if the internationalcommunity continues to fail in its efforts to decolonise territories such as the Western Sahara".
On his part, the President of the Parliament, Mahfoudh Ali Beiba, gave a retrospicive account on the acquisitions of the Saharawi struggle, gained thanks to the martyrs who fell in the field of honour and for whom we will celebrate, tomorrow, the Natiocla Day of the Martyr, which corresponds with the date of the death in the battle field, of the Founder of the Polisario Front, Martyr El Ouali Moustapha Sayed.
The President of the Republic and Supreme Commander of the Saharawi National Army, Mohamed Abdelaziz, had before been saluted by a motorised military battalions of the Saharawi Popular Army of Liberation (ALPS), with the presence of the Minister of Defence, Mohamed Lamine Bouhali, and the Commanders of the Saharawi 7th, 3rd and 1st military regions.
The annual conference of the Saharawi Communities abroad is taking part in margin of the celebrities that mark the 30th anniversary of the National Day of the Martyr, which will start this evening by an artistic night animated by folkloric groups from the Saharawi refugee camps, and communities. (SPS)
010/AGH/000/TRD 081850 June 06 SPS
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