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SPS The President of the
European Parliament: the Baker Plan is the "only plan that is
internationally recognised" 15.09.05
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Rabat, 15/09/2005 (SPS) The President of the European Parliament (EP), Josep Borrell, declared last Wednesday in Rabat that the Baker Plan for the self-determination of the Saharawi people is the "only plan that is recognised at the international level within the framework of the UN", reported press agencies.
The EP cares for and is "very concerned" about the situation of the Western Sahara, " but we think that the solution must emanate from the UN", affirmed the President of the EP underlined after a meeting he had with the President of the Moroccan chamber of representatives, M. Abdelwahed Radi, rejecting thus all Moroccan attempts to empty the Saharawi question from its decolonisation nature by refusing to conform to the international legality. (SPS)
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Demonstrations in front of Moroccan embassy in Brussels to condemn the
ill-treatment exercised against Saharawi political detainees
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Brussels, 15/09/2005 (SPS) The Committee of support to Saharawi people in Europe organised a demonstration, Thursday, in front of the Moroccan Embassy in Brussels to demand "an investigation on the circumstances of ill-treatment inflicted to Saharawi prisoners", reported Algerian press agency, APS.
The demonstration also aims at demanding the "immediate release of all Saharawi political prisoners and the respect of the human rights of he Saharawi population in the occupied territories of Western Sahara", declared the Committee in a press release quoted by the same source.
Since last May the 21st 2005, the civil population of El Aaiun (Western Sahara) organises a set of peaceful demonstrations to claim for Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, the same source recalled. "Saharawi human rights activists, who participated to these demonstrations, were ill-treated and imprisoned".
The Committee gave for instance the case of Mrs. Aminatou Haidar and Mr. Ali Salem Tamek, both famous Saharawi human rights activist and ex-political prisoners.
The Spanish Parliament calls for the release of Saharawi political prisoners on hunger strike in Moroccan prisons and to enable Saharawi people exercise their right to self-determination, according to a motion the Spanish Parliament adopted Tuesday.
The Spanish Parliament calls on the Moroccan Government to "immediately release Saharawi human rights defenders, Aminetou Haidar and Ali Salem Tamek and demands the respect the detainees' individual rights and the sentenced prisoners as well as the transparency in detention and judgment", the motion underlined, in a copy SPS received.
The health of the majority of the 37 Saharawi hunger strikers reached an alarming stage, according to their families, who had families launched an appeal for help to the persons concerned with justice asking for everybody’s intervention to help their sons who "dying slowly under Moroccan authorities of occupation’s complete indifference".
Many organisations such as Amnesty international, the International Organisation Against Torture, European Parliamentarian, Congressmen and many political personalities expressed their preoccupation about the physical and psychological security and integrity of Saharawi political prisoners in hunger strike in Moroccan prisons and call to their immediate release, it should be recalled. (SPS)
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SPS Zreignat in conditional release,
Tamek, Mrs. Haidar, Noumria and Amaidan in a serious state of health
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 15/09/2005 (SPS) Lehssen Zreignat, one of Saharawi political prisoner on hunger strike ibn the different Moroccan prisons, was put in conditioned release Wednesday in a lamentable state of health, almost "a living dead", according to the terms used by his family to whom he was delivered "after having lost his abilities to speak or to move, transported on a stretcher in a police car".
IN the early
morning of the same day, few hours before his release, the man was presented in
this same state before of the judge then before been re-sent to the Carcel Negra
(Black Prison) after the failure of the attempts of the Moroccan authorities to
convince him stop his hunger strike, he answered them, it was reported: "Dignity
or martyr" rejecting their pressures.
On another hand, Mrs. Haidar was transported urgently to the hospital, yesterday
afternoon, for the third time this week while Mr. Ali Salem Tamek suffers from a
fever in his cell in the local prison of Ait Melloul (Agadir- Morocco) for the
third consecutive day, indicated sources close to his family.
Another political prisoner, Aleoua Amaidan, is in a coma since last Tuesday. He
was immediately sent to hospital Belmehdi in El Aaiun to have a chirurgical
operation on his stomach. His family was denied the right to visit him and
ignores if he is still alive.
Brahim
Noumria, human rights activist and political prisoner got paralysed these last
days and is in a very critical state of health, because of the hunger strike and
because of the results of the torture he underwent in the police centres before
been transferred to Oukacha Prison in (Casablanca- Morocco).
The health of the majority of the 37 Saharawi hunger strikers reached an
alarming stage, according to their families, who had families launched an appeal
for help to the persons concerned with justice asking for everybody’s
intervention to help their sons who "dying slowly under Moroccan authorities of
occupation’s complete indifference".
The Saharawi
Minister of Health, Boullahi Siid, demanded a "UN’s medical Commission of
investigation", to decide over the "critical" state of health of the majority of
the 37 Saharawi political prisoners, who are undertaking a hunger strike in
Moroccan cells since last August the 8, reported a press release publicised by
the Ministry in the beginning of September. (SPS)
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SPS Aminetou Haidar and Ali Salem Tamek
transferred in emergency to hospitals this morning
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El Aaiun (occupied capital of SADR), 15/09/2005 (SPS) Saharawi human rights activists, Mrs. Aminetou Haidar, and Mr. Ali Salem Tamek, were transferred, Thursday morning, in emergency to hospitals of Belmehdi in El Aaiun for Haidar and to a hospital in Ait Melloul for Tamek, reported concordant relevant sources on the ground.
Aminetou Haidar, who already lost consciousness many times and who suffers from pains at the level of the stomach and heart, has always refused to receive medical care from the hands of Moroccan doctors known for their complicity with the Moroccan forces of repression in the ill-treatment of demonstrators and political prisoners in need for medical care.
Concerning Tamek, some sources expressed their real preoccupation about his case. He was threatened by the transfer to a psychiatric clinic while he suffers from chronic diseases such as rheumatism and asthma.
A third political prisoner, Amidan Elouali, has had a chirurgical operation last Tuesday in the Belmehdi hospital in El Aaiun. "He was in a very deplorable state of health, to the point that his family fears for his life because of this operation, knowing that he had this operation because of a stomach case", one of the sources indicated.
The health of the majority of the 37 Saharawi hunger strikers reached an alarming stage, according to their families, who had families launched an appeal for help to the persons concerned with justice asking for everybody’s intervention to help their sons who "dying slowly under Moroccan authorities of occupation’s complete indifference".
Many organisations such as Amnesty international, the International Organisation Against Torture, European Parliamentarian, Congressmen and many political personalities expressed their preoccupation about the physical and psychological security and integrity of Saharawi political prisoners in hunger strike in Moroccan prisons and call to their immediate release, it should be recalled. (SPS)
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SPS President Abdelaziz send an open
letter to the UN’s summit in New York
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New York, 15/09/2005 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed
Abdelaziz, sent an open letter to the leaders of the world, who are meeting in
the UN’s 60th summit in New York, in which he called to the decolonisation of
the Western Sahara and to the release of the Saharawi political prisoners held
by Morocco, and among whom some are under threat of death.
Here is the complete text of the letter, translated from Arabic by SPS:
"Open letter to the World’s Summit, held in New York in September the 14 and
15th 2005, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the creation off the UN.
Majesties, Heads of States, Governments and participating delegations,
You are participating to one of the most important meetings. A meeting that
would give you an opportunity to define the objectives that would enable the
United Nations to play its leading role in the construction of peace,
eradication of terrorism, to contribute to the decreasing of famine,
malnutrition and diseases as well as to the promotion of human rights and of the
predominance of law.
In this very moment, and all along the past 30 years, the situation of Western Sahara, the last non-self-governing territory in Africa, remains pendent despite of the numerous UN’s texts and resolutions, adopted from the 60ies so far. The inalienable right of self-determination proclaimed by the UN in the resolution 1514 was unfortunately hard to be realised in Western Sahara, which is on the UN’s list of the non-self-governing territories since 1963 within the framework of Chapter XI of the UN’s Charter, because of the occupation of the territory by Morocco and because of the latter’s intransigent policy that constitute a flagrant violation to the same Charter and to the same objectives you are now gathering to promote and defend.
It is obvious that the presence of Morocco in Western Sahara is a violation of the international law and legality since it is here a question of an occupation by force. UN’s resolution 2625 (XXV) stipulate that territorial acquisition via use or threat of use of force is illegal if the territory remains under the responsibility of the United Nations. And this is the case for the Western Sahara.
The Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara is also a flagrant violation of the indisputable right to self-determination and of the decolonisation of the last non-self-governing territory in Africa, and one of the negative obstacles on the development of this party of Africa that longs to peace and development.
Now, Moroccan refusal to conform to the principle of a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people is another serious violation of the self-determination principle and of the UN’s Charter that consider it as a key principle in the international law. The illegal exploitation and plundering by Morocco of the Saharawi resources are also contradictory to international law that should prevail and be respected by all.
The
repressive practices adopted by Morocco against the Saharawi civil population in
the occupied territories of Western Sahara and in the south of Morocco are
another violation to the principles of human rights. This population is daily
subjected to tortures, oppression, forced 'disappearance', arbitrary
detentions….
Majesties, Heads of States, Governments and participating delegations,
You are meeting today to ban all forms of injustice, for the promotion of human
rights, to put an end to the terrorist threat, to reduce famine in the world but
also to impose the enforcement of international law all over the world. In this
context, Saharawi people address you, and would like to call on you in this
occasion to intervene urgently in Western Sahara, the territory which is, it
should be recalled, under the UN’s jurisdiction through the UN’s Mission on the
ground (MINURSO).
We demand the enforcement of the international law as recommended by the
principles of the UN’s Charter so as to organise a free and democratic
referendum on self-determination that would enable Saharawi people to freely
decide over their destiny. We also ask for the protection of our national
resources; which are illegally plundered by Morocco.
On another
hand, we solicit you urgent intervention to save the threatened lives of some 40
Saharawi political prisoners who are on an unlimited hunger strike since last
August the 08, 2005, in Moroccan prisons. Unless you intervene, it should be
stressed, these Saharawi political detainees, whose most fundamental rights
Morocco denies, may likely die. We reiterate our appeal for an urgent
intervention from you so as to contribute to the release of these political
detainees who do only claim for legitimate rights that the international law
guarantees them.
Bir lehlu, le 15 août 2005
Mohamed ABDELAZIZ,
President of the Saharazi Arab
Democratic Republic
Secretary General of the Polisario Front". (SPS)
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SPS Mohamed Sidati: The European Union
must "compel Morocco put an end to its inhuman, cruel and shameful policy"
in Western Sahara
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Brussels, 15/09/2005, (SPS) Saharawi Minister delegated to Europe and Member to Polisario Front National Secretariat, Mohamed Sidati, called the European Union, during a meeting he had with the European Commission General Director for international relations, Mr. Eneko Landáburu, to urgently intervene so as to compel morocco put an end to the "inhuman, cruel and shameful policy" he adopts in the occupied territories of in Western Sahara.
On another hand he described the fishing accord signed by the European Commission with Morocco as a major "abuse of the international law and legality", in a press release he publicised Thursday to give a briefing on his meeting with Mr. Landáburu. Here is the complete text of the press release:
"Press release
Saharawi Minister delegated to Europe and Member to Polisario Front National Secretariat, Mohamed Sidati, was received at the seat of the European Commission (EC-Brussels) by the European Commission General Director for international relations, Monsieur Eneko Landáburu and his closest assistants. The humanitarian, juridical and political aspects of the conflict of Western Sahara were discussed during this meeting.
The Minister solicited the urgent intervention of the European Union vis-à-vis the Moroccan authorities of occupation to compel them put an end to the inhuman, cruel and shameful policy they are adopting against Saharawi prisoners of opinion. The Saharawi prisoners, it should be recalled, reached their 36th day on hunger strike and their state of health is deteriorating day after day. The EU must intervene to help these persons, who are under threat. This is a moral and humanitarian duty,
In the face of the seriousness of the situation, and to avoid the worst, the EU must enforce the Article 2 of her accord of association with Morocco. This accord, it should be recalled, requires from Morocco to respect the human rights, including the right to physical and moral integrity and security of these persons. The European official answered that the EU is and will remain "firm whenever human rights are concerned.. »
On another hand, the Saharawi official expressed his preoccupation about the terms of the fishing accords signed by the EC with Morocco. This accord that violates the waters of the Saharawi territory, which is illegally occupied by Morocco, is a major abuse of the international law and legality. He asked for the Commission to review this accord so as to conform to the international law.
A copy of the letter addressed on the subject by the Saharawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz, Secretary General of Polisario Front, to the current President of the EU, the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair, was handed over to the European Commission General Director for international relations.
15, September, 2005." (SPS)
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