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SPS Sit-in of solidarity with the Saharawi people this December the 10th in front of the Moroccan Consulate in Milan 08.12.05
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Roma,
08/12/2005 (SPS) A Sit-in of solidarity with the Saharawi political prisoners
detained in the Carcel Negra in El Aaiun and in other prisons of Morocco will
take place this December the 10 in front of the Consulate of Morocco in Milan,
indicated the Italin National Association of solidarity with the Saharawi
people, ANSPS, reported Algerian Press Service, APS.
This demonstration, organised by the association
"Gherim di Nembro" and the social cooperative "Amandla", in collaboration with
the Coordination of the associations of solidarity with the Saharawi people of
Lombardia and he Italian section of the International Bureau of Human Rights in
Western Sahara (BIRDHSO), on the occasion of the international day of Human
Rights, celebrated in December the 10th every year, will be an
opportunity to "denounce the serious violations of human rights'' in the
occupied territories of Western Sahara and called to the release of all the
political prisoners and to the self-determination for the Saharawi people.
This
sit-in will be the fourth to be organised in front of a Representation o the
Moroccan kingdom in Italy after the one organised last October the 15th and
November the 26th in front of the Moroccan Embassy in Roma and the
third demonstration organised in front of the Moroccan consulate in Bologna.
The principle of the
organisation of sit-ins and other
demonstrations of protest in front of the Moroccan diplomatic Representations
around the world was decided during the 31st European Conference of the
Coordination of support to the Saharawi people (EUCOCO), which was held from the
23 and 25th of September in Mol (Belgium).
(SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 080851 dec 05 SPS
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SPS Saharawi Government denounces "the coward and tragic assassination" of Abba Cheikh
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Chahid
El Hafed, 08/12/2005 (SPS) The Saharawi Government denounced "the coward and
tragic assassination", by a Moroccan police officer last December the 2nd,
of the Saharawi citizen, Abba Cheikh Embarek Ould Ali, near his house in Tan-
Tan, south Morocco, reported a pres release publicised by the Ministry of
occupied territories in Wednesday.
"The
coward and tragic assassination, perpetrated by the Moroccan forces of security,
intervenes at a moment when the pitiless and bloody repression takes more and
more importance in the occupied territories of Western Sahara under the impact
of the peaceful demonstrations that claim, since last May the 21st, the end of
the Moroccan colonial occupation and demand Saharawi people’s right to
self-determination", the press release stressed.
"Resuming
to all sorts of persecutions, arbitrary arrests, most of the time followed by
the force disappearance and by the adoption of blind and systematic terror, the
Moroccan Government tries to deprive the Saharawi people of their right to
se-determination through the exercise of a free and democratic referendum under
the supervision of the United Nations", the text added.
To the Saharawi Government, this crime illustrates
"the seriousness of the situation Saharawi population are living, submitted to
torture, interdiction of movement –especially of Saharawi human rights
activists- the restriction against the freedom of expression, association,
meting and are now facing a redoubtable police machine".
Through these actions Morocco is
"abandoning the peace process and violating
all its engagements and accords and is refusing all he peaceful solutions to the
conflict", the text says, estimating that via these acts "the Moroccan
Government is giving proves to its disdain to the fundamental international
principles of human rights".
The
Government also considered that the current situation is "untenable » and called
the international community to urgently "put an end to this campaign of
repression against the Saharawi civil population in the territories under
Moroccan occupation".
33 years
old, married an father to two children, the Late Abba Cheikh Embarek Ould Ali is
the second person assassinated by the Moroccan Government, after the
assassination of the Late Hamdi Lembarki, killed by the Moroccan forces GUS in
El Aaiun, last October the 30th. (SPS)
010/090/100 080930 dec 05 SPS
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SPS A Saharawi victim of a fire in the prison of El Aaiun
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El Aaiun 08/12/05 (SPS) A Saharawi political prisoner, Ismaili Hamadi, lost consciousness, Tuesday evening, for hours as a result to a fire in the prison of the Carcel Negra in El Aaiun (occupied capital of Western Sahara), according to concordant sources.
Mr. Ismaili Hamadi, was sleeping among his comrades, on Tuesday night, when he was awaked by the sound of an electric short-circuit that destroyed all the electrical installation o the prison in the Carcel Negra in El Aaiun.
While he was helping his friends to put out the fire, Hamadi, fell suffocating because of the smoke for a long period without receiving any help from the administration of the prison, the same source added. (SPS)
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SPS Moroccan authorities arrested ex- Saharawi political prisoner Mohamed Bahia
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El Aaiun, 08/12/05 (SPS) Moroccan authorities arrested, on Tuesday in El
Aaiun, the ex-Saharawi political prisoner, Mohamed Bahia Rachidi, following the
orders of the Moroccan colonial judge of the El Aaiun, reported a close source
to the family of the prisoner.
Mr. Rachidi, 19 years old, has just served a year and half prison
sentence in the Carcel Negra in El Aaiun, where he was imprisoned last October
the 25th 2003, for having supported Algerian soccer’s team.
Since the starting of the Intifada last May in the occupied territories of
Western Sahara and south Morocco, arrests, abductions, tortures and show trials
became the normal daily life of the Saharawi citizens, to whom also the free
access to Internet was banned, after the expulsion from the airport of El Aaiun
of many international observers who want to investigate on the Moroccan human
rights’ violations. (SPS)
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SPS 6 persons at lest arrested and two others wounded after new demonstrations in three Saharawi cities
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El
Aaiun (occupied territories of Western Sahara), 08/12/2005(SPS) Moroccan
forces of repression arrested 5 persons in El Aaiun and 1 person in Smara, last
Wednesday, after demonstrations that broke the same day in these two Saharawi
cities under Moroccan occupation, and also in Boujdour, to denounce the
assassination of Martyr Lekhlipha Abba cheikh, who was killed by a Moroccan
soldier in Tan Tan (south Morocco), indicated SPS’s correspondents on the
ground.
Demonstrator, backed by the mothers of Saharawi students, lifted SADR’s flags
and chanted slogans against the Moroccan occupation. The demonstrators marched
through many streets of the
El Aaiun before been brutally dispersed by the
different corps of the Moroccan repressive apparatus. According to the same
source at least 2 persons were wounded, mainly Mr. Selama Yehdih Libeynhat, and
his mother Mrs. Salka Hameida, who was ill-treated by the Moroccan agents.
The Moroccan forces of occupation, who arrested Saharawi citizens, Mr.
Chekouti
Cheikh El Ouali, Mr.
Sid'Ahmed Ndour, Mr.
Boutebaa
Saleh, Mr.
Boughambour Othman, Mr.
Chab Saadi,
in El Aaiun and Mr.
Said Mohamed Baha in Smara, also ransacked
three Saharawi houses in El Aaiun and another one in Smara, it was indicated.
On another hand, the director of the secondary school,
"El Khansa",
in El Aaiun, expelled 12 Saharawi students because they participated in peaceful
demonstrations claiming for Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and
independence as well as the release of all Saharawi political prisoners.
On their part, Saharawi citizens of the city of Smara organised a peaceful
demonstration calling to the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and
denouncing the assassination of the young Saharawi Martyr,
Lekhlipha Abba Cheikh, last Saturday in Tan Tan (south
Morocco).
The flags of SADR were lifted in the streets of Smara and pictures of the Martyr
of dignity and freedom,
El Ouali Mustapha Seyid, and of the President
of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, as well as pictures of the Martyr of the
Intifada, Lembarki Hamdi El Mahjoub, were distributed.(SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 081315 Dec 05 SPS
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SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE