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SPS SOUTH AFRICA/AMINATOU HAIDAR/VISIT Aminatou Haidar in South Africa in an official visit of mobilisation on the situation in the occupied territories 18.06.05
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(Special Envoy)
Pretoria (South Africa), 18/06/2006 (SPS) Saharawi Human Rights activist and ex-political prisoner, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, arrived on Sunday morning to Johannesburg, coming from Italy, within the framework of an official visit o mobilisation of the public opinion in South Africa on the Moroccan human rights violations in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.
The Shaarawi activist, which undertook a turn of mobilisation in Europe that led her in Sweden, in Spain, in Italy and in Belgium, is invited this evening by the South African Foreign Affairs Minister to an official dinner in the Sheraton Hotel in Pretoria, before starting a programme of mobilisation and contact with the South African authorities and civil society.
While in Roma, Mrs. Aminetou Haidar had lately asked Morocco to put an end to the violence and persecutions against the Saharawi populations in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara and reaffirmed the claims and the peaceful struggle of the Saharawi people for independence.
Mrs. Haidar, A Saharawi human rights militant very famous in Europe, was tortured and detained by the Moroccan authorities for having advocated her people’s right to self-determination.
She has also been victim of abduction in 1987 while she was 20 years old and detained for four years in the Moroccan prisons, it should be recalled. (SPS)
060/PRT/000 181237 Juin 06 SPS
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SPS OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION Four Saharawi human rights activists arrested in El Aaiun
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 18/06/2006 (SPS) Moroccan security forces arrested four Saharawi human rights activists on Saturday in El Aaiun, including the S.G of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Human Right Violations committed by the Moroccan State (ASVVGDHEM), the former Saharawi disappeared, Brahim Sabbar.
Mr. Sabbar, accompanied by three of his compatriots, Haddi Ahmed Mahmoud Elkainan, Sbai Ahmed, member of the Coordinating Council of the ASVVGDHEM and member of the Committee for the Protection of the Back Jail, as well as Haddi Salah, were arrested on Saturday in El Aaiun and ill-treated by the Moroccan colonial authorities, which is detaining them until now because of "their activities in the defence of the human rights in the Western Sahara", a press release was publicised by the Association the same day, of which SPS received a copy.
The four human rights activists were arrested while they were travelling to the occupied city of Bojador, south of El Aaiun, the same source added.
Mr. Brahim Sabbar, had vividly denounced on Friday "the systematic and continuous violations of the human rights" perpetrated by the Moroccan Government against the Saharawi civilians, warning against the dangers of a "radicalisation" of the Intifada if Rabat persists in its repression.
He was victim to many intimidations and provocations because of these political opinions in favour of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination. These opinions were publicised last Saturday, in the Moroccan newspaper, "El Bidaoui", affirming that the Moroccan Government is undertaking a real genocide against the Saharawi people since the military invasion of the territory in 1975.
On its part, the Saharawi Committee of the defence of the human rights in the occupied Smara, denounced the violations the Saharawi civilians are subjected to in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, expressing "its support and unconditional solidarity" with the Saharawi political prisoners in hunger strike and with the victims of torture, especially that Saaidi Salek, who was recently burned with benzene in a Moroccan police station in El Aaiun.
The Committee also launched an appeal in direction of international human rights organisations and democratic forces so as to intervene in "emergency" to put an end to the human rights violations in the Western Sahara. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 181030 Jun 06 SPS
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SPS WESTERN SAHARA /STATUS/IUT The Status of "the Non-Self-Governing Status of the Western Sahara" reaffirmed by the IUT
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Geneva, 18/06/2006 (SPS) The Status of "the Non-Self-Governing Status of the Western Sahara", was recently reaffirmed in Geneva, by the International Union of Telecommunication, at the end of the second plenary session of the Regional Conference of Radio Communications, indicated the Algerian Press Service, APS, quoting a diplomatic source.
The position of the IUT expressed through an opinion of the legal Councillor, was approved following a demand formulated by the Algerian delegation, in reaction to the claims by Morocco to subscribe Radio and TV Broadcasting erected n the territory of the Western Sahara giving it an abbreviation pretending Moroccan sovereignty over the territory", the same source indicated.
In a letter it presented in the conference, in charge of the reviewing of the accord of Radio Broadcasting in Geneva of 1989, Algeria insisted that the legal Councillor repeated the legal opinion in the plenary session it already presented in the Commission 4 concerning "the utilisation of the band 170-177 megahertz n° 5229 in the law of radio communications", i was added.
Algeria also recalled that the legal Councillor had declared before that the "territory of the Western Sahara is subscribed on the list of the NON-Self-Governing territory that comes under the Chapter 11 of the UN Charter".
The UN has in fact considered that the territory "is not a part of the Moroccan territory, and Morocco is not recognised as an administrating power". (SPS)
010/090/700/TD 180927 jun 06 SPS
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