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SPS Adoption of the Status of the Committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people "CORELSO" in Paris 13.12.05
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Paris, 13/12/2005 (SPS) The members of the Committee for the respect of
freedoms and human rights in Western Sahara (CORELSO) adopted, with the presence
of a Representative of Amnesty International, on Monday evening in Paris, the
status of this new French Association that is struggling for "Saharawi people’s
right for self-determination", reported Algerian Press Service, APS.
"Since the
end of May, Saharawi population in the occupied zones claim for their right to
self-determination via strong peaceful demonstrations. Moroccan forces of
occupation answered this demonstrations with a violent repression", the members
of the Committee stated.
"In the face
of this repression and of the intensification of human rights violations",
teachers, employees, searchers and human rights’ activists decided to create the
CORELSO.
In the 2nd article of its adopted constitution,
CORESLSO
underlined that i twill work for "the respect of the freedoms and of human
rights in the territories of
Western Sahara under Moroccan occupation".
The Committee, which is based in
Ivry, near Paris, also has got as an
objective to "act for the release of Saharawi political prisoners", and to
"defend Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and to the exploitation of
the natural resources of their territory conforming to the international
law".
The Representative of the French Section of Amnesty International gave a
briefing on the actions undertaken by her organisation for the defence of human
rights in Western Sahara.
She referred to the report lately issued by her NGO, from London, in which it
expressed
concerns that "8 human rights’ activist were targeted because of their leading
action for the defence of the fundamental rights and because of their publicly
expressed position in favour of Saharawi people’s right to self-determination".
Amnesty
International’s Representative further indicated that her organization has
dispatched lawyers in El Aaiun to participate to the defence of the Saharawi
human rights activists, who are brought before Moroccan colonial court for
"dubious and unfair" accusations, American Human Rights Watch lately said.
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SPS A Saharawi woman aborted under torture during a new demonstration in Boujdour
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Boujdour(occupied territories), 13/12/2005 (SPS) A Saharawi woman, Mahfoudha
Laseiri, aborted under torture during new demonstrations that took place on
Monday, while three other Saharawi citizens were seriously injured, including
her youngest son, Said Mohamed Fenich, and Abdellah Mohamed El Haj, who is now
paralyzed because he was wounded in his head, the correspondent of SPS reported.
Mrs.
Mahfoudha Laseiri, who was trying to bring help to her youngest son, Said
Mohamed Fenich, wounded at the level of his chest and head, was savagely beaten
by the torturers Mohamed Jlit and Abderrahmane El Kaoui, provoking her abortion,
the same source indicated.
Moroccan repressive forces brutally intervened, with all their corps, to
disperse the demonstrations of the students of intermediate and secondary
schools, to which also the inhabitants of the Colomina street took part,
claiming for Saharawi people right to self-determination and independence.
A yung Saharawi girl,
Tfarah Abeilil was injured at the level of
her shoulders and head and an old Saharawi citizen, Mrs. Mariem Said, was beaten
by the torturer Aberrahmane El Kaoui and Commandant Abdallah, while Toueilia El
Mabrouk, was wounded at the level of the head an eyes, it was indicated.
Three persons were detained,
Limam El Markhi, Mariem Babeyt and Hamia
Teslem, besides four other students who are still not identified, the
correspondent of SPS added.
On another hand, Saharawi political prisoner
El Agdadi Ali, who is currently detained in
Tiznit, was subjected to torture in his cell by the director of the prison and a
group of his employees, who handcuffed him and ransacked his personal
belongings.
The political
prisoner decided thus to undertake an unlimited hunger strike to denounce this
barbarian act.
Peaceful demonstrations took place last Thursday and Friday in
Boujdour,
during which Saharawi demonstrators reconfirmed their rejection of the colonial
occupation of their country claiming for their right to self-determination and
independence and lifting the flags of SADR and pictures of Saharawi political
prisoners, it should be recalled. (SPS)
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SPS Saharawi students in El Aaiun brutalised by Moroccan settlers
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El Aaiun,
13/12/2005(SPS) Saharawi students of the secondary school of Cooperation and of
Lyssan Edin, in El Aaiun, were brutalised on Monday by Moroccan settlers for
having lifted the flags of the Saharawi Republic in the entry of their school,
reported concordant sources to SPS.
On Monday morning, before class, all the students of he secondary school of
Cooperation rallied around a 4 meters long flag of the Saharawi Republic, which
was lifted in front of their establishment, and on which was written
" for the
independence of
Western Sahara and the evacuation of the Moroccan settlers".
At the same
moment in the
secondary school of Lissan Edin, many slogans an photocopies of the flag of the
Saharawi Republic were distributed and dispersed in the hall o the school, the
same source indicated.
As a result to these operations, the Pacha
of the occupied city of
El Aaiun, accompanied with some secret agents arrested many students, in the
mentioned schools an many others, it was indicated.
The same Moroccan colonial official gathered more than
25 students
of the same schools to force them sign a document of which the content is still
ignored, but the students were unanimous in refusing to sign what pushed the
Pacha to ill-treat them and arrest them after that, the same source indicated.
For this reason the Saharawi population organised demonstrations n many streets
of the city of
El Aaiun, especially in the street "Sidi Mohamed Dedech", to express their
unhappiness and rejection of the behaviours of the Moroccan settlers. They
chanted slogans claiming for the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination
and lifted the flags of the SAD, before they were severely repressed by Moroccan
forces in the streets "Ali Salem Tamek", the same source added.(SPS)
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SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE