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SPS The Spanish Lawyer General Council denounces the maintenance of 14 Saharawi militants in custody 11.05.05
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Madrid, 11/05/2006 (SPS) The Spanish Lawyer General Council (CGAE) denounced, on Wednesday, the maintenance of 14 Saharawi human rights activists in custody in Moroccan prisons of Aït Melloul, Inzegan and Tiznit.
CGAE also denounced ''the continuity of aggressions by the Moroccan police against the released prisoners as well as the arbitrary detentions'', the organisation said in a press release.
The Council noted that the Moroccan Government was ''forced'' these last weeks to release 64 Saharawi human rights activists because of ''international pressures'' and of the report of the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, who expressed the ''preoccupation'' of this international organisation for these "human rights violations in the Western Sahara ".
On another hand, the Spanish organisation noted that the UN announced the dispatch to the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, of a delegation from the UN High Commissioner for Hum Rights to investigate on the situation.
CGAE recalled that its mission of observers, composed of jurists, was the only to have access to the trials of the Saharawi militants.
It remarked that the ''denunciations'', expressed by this mission, about the violations of the legal norms of trials had ''not only enabled the reduction of the sentences but also contributed to the release of a part of the Saharawi detainees''.
The text reported ''the exercise of torture during the detention of the accused, the partiality of the judges, the treatment received by the lawyers (favouring the accusation, to the detriment of the defence), the enforcement of the Moroccan penal law in a Non-Self-Governing territory and the violent interventions of police agents and military forces in court''. (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 111008 May 06 SPS
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SPS Eight persons arrested during demonstrations in the occupied El Aaiun
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 11/05/2006 (SPS) Eight Saharawis at least were arrested, including an ex-political prisoner, during demonstrations that took place on Wednesday, in commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the Polisario Front, indicated concordant sources.
The demonstrators distributed thousands tracts rejecting the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara and asking for the Saharawi people right to self-determination and independence.
In "Ali ben Abdallah" intermediate school (El Aaiun- Western Sahara), the Moroccan forces of occupation "brutally arrested the Saharawi students: Boussaoula Mohamed Salem, Alouatt Vaissal, Lamiiz Othmane, Mouloud Al Bailal, Badr Al Haoumi and Mohamed Fadel Lembarki.
They also arrested the ex-political prisoner, Abdelaziz Day in company of Abderrahmane Mouloud Taoumi, the same sources added.
In the "Lemsal-la" secondary school (El Aaiun- Western Sahara), nine Saharawi students were "abusively" dismissed from the school by the Director of the establishment, who blamed them of "wearing the Saharawi traditional clothes", according to the same sources.
The mentioned students are: Miss. Khadijetou Doueiya, Miss. Sabah Larroussi, Mr. M'hamed Laghzal, Miss. Aichatou Toubali, Miss. Sofi Naiima, Miss. Rahma Khiraj, Mr. El Kentaouiya Beiba, Miss. Meyara Moulemnine and Miss. Mariem Moukhliss.
On another hand, information are spread since Tuesday, saying that the Director General of the Moroccan prisons started secret visits to the Moroccan Jails and meet wit the directors of the penitentiary establishments so as "to ameliorate the image" of Moroccan detention centres and "the situation of the Saharawi political prisoners" in the eve of the imminent visit of the UN’s Committee of human rights that will be dispatched to the Western Sahara.
On another hand, more than 40 Saharawi prisoners were "forcibly transferred" towards Moroccan jail inside the Moroccan territories, "without previous warning" from the colonial authorities.
The Moroccan authorities abusively deported the Saharawi citizen, Isleim Laghzal to the local prison of Ait Melloul, blaming him of been "behind the hunger strike and demonstrations" that are taking place in the occupied territories in favour of the independence of the Western Sara, the same source indicated. (SPS)
020/090/110 111150 Mai 06 SPS
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SPS The Saharawi Republic signs the African Convention for the prevention and struggle against terrorism
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Addis-Abeba (Ethiopia), 11/05/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Republic signed the African Union adopted Convention for the prevention and struggle against terrorism, Monday in Addis Abeba, indicated a press release issued Tuesday by the Saharawi Embassy to the AU and Ethiopia.
"The Saharawi Republic gets more confirmed within the sovereign nations, which signed this convention against terrorism, been a serious threat against the values of democracy, peace and international security", the text added.
The ceremony of signature took place at the seat of the AU and was signed on behalf of the Saharawi State by Mr. Lehbib Breika, Ambassador of the Saharawi Republic to the AU and Ethiopia, it was indicated.
By adhering this Convention, the Saharawi Republic signs thus the eighth African convention, of which six were ratified by the Saharawi Parliament.
This African initiative reinforces the international cooperation and enables the countries of the continent to continue collaborating on a regional and bilateral basis to struggle against terrorist acts, as a phenomenon that affects economical and social development of States. (SPS)
070/090/000/TRD 111205 May 06 SPS
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