SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE

Tan Tan (South of Morocco), 17/07/2006 (SPS) The family of the Saharawi political prisoner, Salama Maulud Brahim Lehmam, sent an "urgent appeal" to all human rights organisations to intervene to "put pressures" on the Moroccan authorities so as to release their son along with "all the others Saharawi political prisoners", according to a press release publicised by the family, of which SPS received a copy.

The family asked all international and regional bodies to intervene so as "to put an end to the serious situation of health" in which their son is, in a room in the Hassan II hospital in the Moroccan city of Agadir, because of the attempt of assassination he underwent while in prison in Inzegan.

In the press release, the family declared its "unconditioned solidarity" with its son and with "all the other Saharawi political prisoners", the text added.

The family considers the Moroccan authorities as responsible for "all what can happen" to its son in the future, affirming in the end its support "to the Saharawi people’s rights to self-determination and independence". (SPS)

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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESION

The Moroccan authorities transfer three Saharawi political prisoners in "critical states" to the "Cárcel Negra" in El Aaiun

El Aaiun (occupied territories), 17/07/2006 (SPS) The Moroccan authorities transferred three Saharawi political prisoners, to the notorious "Cárcel Negra" in El Aaiun, in very bad state of health because of the torture they were subjected to by the Moroccan criminal police during the interrogatories in the occupied city of Smara, according to a credible source.

The Saharawi citizens, Omar Uld Alamin (Omar Bleizid), Chej Uld Dada Uld Bumrah (Chej Ben Alal) and Gali Uld Suaidi Uld Bahaa (Gali Zagam), were detained for having participated in a peaceful demonstration against the Moroccan occupation last Tuesday. They were transferred from the occupied city of Smara to the occupied city of El Aaiun to be incarcerated in the notorious "Cárcel Negra" in the same cell with criminals, according to the same source.

During their detention in the occupied city of Smara, were tortured “brutally” in company of 8 other Saharawis before been transferred to the capital of the Western Sahara, El Aaiun. (SPS)

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