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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/MOROCCO/HUMAN RIGHTS
Moroccan authorities attack the family and residence of a Saharawi activist

D'Chira (area around El Aaiun), 14/03/2005 (SPS) Moroccan authorities of occupation in the rural community of "D'Chira" (area around occupied city of El Aaiun) attacked, last Thursday at 8 in the morning, the family and home of the Saharawi human rights activist, Mr. Sidi Ahmed Eddia Moussa, reported matching sources.

"12 agents of the auxiliary forces (Makhzen) and local authorities of occupation, under the orders of the Bacha of the city of El Aaiun, came in a Land-Rover, Thursday 10 March 2005 at 8 o'clock in the morning, to destroy the goods of the family of Mr. Sidi Ahmed Eddia Moussa", member of the local committee of human rights defenders in Western Sahara, delegate and Coordinator of Saharawi workers of the company of Phosbucra.

The forces of occupation started destroying "the wall of the farm of the victim and his house situated in the region of Lamriat in the surroundings of El Aaiun, destroying plants and goods", stressed one of the sources, adding that "while trying to resist this aggressive attack" the members of the family were "ill-treated by the aggressors".

Goods and some equipment were "stolen" by the agents, asserted a press release publicised by the victim. He condemned this abuse, which is a new proof on the "the aggression committed by Moroccan authorities against Saharawis, especially human rights activists in Western Sahara".

The victim finally called all international human rights organisations to "intervene near Moroccan authorities" to put an end to these exactions against Saharawi citizens rights in occupied territories of Western Sahara and south Morocco. (SPS)

060/090/000 141241 MAR 05 SPS

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SADR/POLITICS
Political orientation, a subject to the seminary of Polisario Front's cadres

Dakhla (refugees camps), 14/03/2005 (SPS) A seminary on political orientation, past, present and future was opened, Monday in Dakhla, under the chairmanship of the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, in presence of members of the National Secretariat, Government, Parliament and Polisario Front's civil and military cadres.

The opening session was devoted to the presentation of the report of the Central of the political orientation, read by its responsible, Khattri Adouh, Member to the National Secretariat. An account was read by Mr. M'Hamed Khadad, Coordinator with the Minurso, on the last developments of the conflict with Morocco and the UN's perspectives, including the peace plan currently blocked by the Moroccan Government.

Another paper on the situation of human rights in occupied territories and south Morocco as well as on the peaceful struggle of Saharawi citizens in those zones was presented by the Minister of |Occupied Territories. The National Direction for the Protection of the National Institutions, on its part, presented a global vision on the dangers threatening the internal security in the refugees' camps.

The afternoon will be consecrated to the work of the commissions, which results would be presented to the plenary session Tuesday morning, the date of the closure of this meeting, it was indicated.

This seminary, it should be noted, is an annual tradition devoted to the sum up of the Saharawi organisation at the political and organisational levels. (SPS)

010/DKH/000/TRD 141319 MARS 05 SPS

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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/HUMAN RIGHTS
Sidi Mohamed Daddach calls to the release of Saharawi detainee Abdallah Lakhfaouni

El Aaiun (occupied territories), 14/03/2005 (SPS) Saharawi human rights activist, Sidi Mohamed Daddach, addressed an appeal to all human rights organisations to work for the "release of this political prisoner, Abdallah Lakhfaouni, who undertakes an unlimited hunger strike in the prison of Kenitra", indicated a press release by the activist of which SPS received a copy.

Mr. Daddach called all international and regional bodies "to pressure Moroccan penitentiary administration so as to answer the prisoner's claims". He underlined the latter's "critical state of health because of the hunger strike taking into consideration that he suffers many chronic diseases caused by the ill-treatment he underwent in this sinister prison".

The Saharawi activist and Rafto human rights Price 2002 winner, Sidi Mohamed Daddach, declared his unconditional solidarity with the political prisoner, exhorting Moroccan authorities of occupation to provide him the most fundamental conditions of detention, "granted by international conventions and by laws regulating Moroccan prisons".

Mr. Abdallah Lakhfaouni started an unlimited hunger strike in March the 2nd in the prison of Kenitra, "in protest against the critical state he suffers from in this sinister prison asking for the amelioration of his situation, the permission for longer periods of visit to his family out of the cell or his transfer to a prison close to his residence" in occupied city of El Aaiun. (SPS)

020/090/000/TRD 141519 MAR 05 SPS

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