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SPS Press release by the Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan custody 15.04.05
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El Aaiun, 15/04/2006 (SPS) 66 Saharawi political prisoners, incarcerated in the Moroccan prisons, publicised a press release after a hunger strike they started this April the 11th to protest against their arbitrary detention, repression and intimidation to which the Saharawi citizens are submitted every day in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.
Here is the complete text of the press release, SPS received:
"In March the 25th 2006, a group of Saharawi political prisoners were released. This partial liberation of prisoners was the result of continuous struggle, which has gathered many international organisations such as:
Human rights associations, civil society around the world, Parliamentarians, governments, writers, artists, journalists and other personalities, including some Moroccan democrats and activists. Demonstrations and sit-in were organised in front of the embassies and consulates of Morocco, Committees of support and international campaigns were launched to support the Saharawi political prisoners and guarantee the respect of human rights in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, in addition to the great work achieved by many journalists despite the state of Medias siege imposed on the occupied cities of the Western Sahara and in the south of Morocco.
The Moroccan oppression against the Saharawi civilians is continued and the human rights situation in this zone of the world is becoming more and more catastrophic. Many Saharawi citizens were arrested and tortured by the forces of the kingdom of Morocco. Many women and girls were raped and hundreds cases of humiliations, ill-treatments are reported everyday.
The Moroccan authorities continue to lead a campaign of terror against the Saharawi political prisoners and human rights activists as well as against their families. 17 Saharawi political prisoners were tortured during their transportation last April the 04th 2006 to the Moroccan court in El Aaiun. The Saharawi human rights activists, Brahim Noumria, Hmad Hammad, ElhafedTaoubali were harassed. The father of Mr. Lakhlifa Eljanhaoui was abducted and tortured. The brother of the Saharawi political prisoners, Elhoucine Andoure, Mr Khallihna Andoure, was arrested. The family of the political prisoner, Mohamed Salem Boumoud, was humiliated, and the Saharawi population of Smara city was brutally oppressed the same day of the release of the Saharawi political prisoner, Loud Outmani...etc
In front of this catastrophic and tragic situation, the Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan custody declare the following:
* Express their complete and unconditional solidarity with all the Saharawi victims of the terrible Moroccan oppressive raid against the Saharawi citizens of Smara and El Aaiun
* Call on the international community to an urgent intervention to protect the Saharawi civilians from the Moroccan bloody oppression and to guarantee the respect by the Moroccan State of the human rights and the international legality in the Western Sahara.
* Ask for the opening of an investigation concerning the acts of torture perpetrated by the members of the Moroccan GUS against Saharawi political prisoners in April the 04th 2006 in the occupied city of El Aaiun.
* Highly hail and support the efforts paid by all the international organisations, associations and personalities.
* Denounce the serious violations and crimes committed by the Moroccan State and declare the start of a 48 hours hunger strike starting from April the 13th 2006 in the prisons of El Aaiun (Western Sahara), Ait Melloul (Morocco), Tiznit (Morocco), Inzegane (Morocco).
Saharawi political prisoners in the Moroccan jails of:
Carcel Negra in El Aaiun (Black Jail)/ Western Sahara
Prison of Tiznit (Morocco),
Ait-Melloul (Morocco),
Inzegane (Morocco). (SPS)
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SPS Distribution of tracts in El Aaiun and human rights abuses by Moroccan police in occupied territories
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 15/04/2006 (SPS) Many tracts rejecting the Moroccan proposed autonomy were distributed on Wednesday in the occupied city of El Aaiun 8Western Sahara), while some Saharawi human rights activists are subjects to abuses perpetrated against them by Moroccan police, the correspondent of SPS on the ground reported.
The tracts ask for the right of the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination and independence, while two big flags of the Saharawi Republic were raised in the Smara Avenue, not far from the Moroccan popular bank in the occupied capital of the Western Sahara, El Aaiun, the same source indicated.
The Moroccan forces of oppression intervened to disperse a group of young Saharawis allegedly blaming them for been behind the distribution of the tracts and of the flags of the Saharawi Republic, it was added.
In the occupied city of Dakhla, the Moroccan forces of occupation imposed a 24 hours surveillance on the house of the human rights activist, Oulad Cheikh El Mahjoub. The latter, it should be recalled, was subjected to torture many times during the last months.
In the occupied city of Smara, two Saharawi political prisoners, Dadi mahmoud Hmada and Ahmed Sidi Moussaoui were transported last Wednesday morning to the Carcel Negra (Black Jail) in El Aaiun, to be brought before the Moroccan colonial court there.
Before that, the Moroccan forces of repression had dispersed the families of the Saharawi political prisoners and other Saharawi citizens supporting them, after they organised a sit-in asking for the immediate and unconditional release of their sons, the same source added.
The occupied city of Smara witnessed a large deployment of Moroccan forces, recently, especially in the Saharawi neighbourhoods.
On another hand, the Moroccan forces of occupation arrested the Saharawi human rights activist, Moustapha Tamek, upon his entry to Goulimine city (South of Morocco) coming from Agadir.
Mr. Moustapha Tamek, he is a member to the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH), section of Assa, was transported by the Moroccan forces to a police station, where he was interrogated for more than 2 hours, the same source said. (SPS)
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