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SPS Popular meeting of solidarity in the 27 of February School with the Saharawi political prisoner and human rights activist, Aminatou Haidar 19.01.06
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27 of February School (Saharawi refugee camps), 19/01/2006 (SPS) A popular meeting was organised on Wednesday in the 27 of February School under the presendency of the Person in Charge of Political Orientation within Polisario Front, Khatri Addouh, with the presence of members of the National Secretariat and the Saharawi Government, in solidarity with the emblematic Saharawi human rights activist, Aminatou Haidar, for her release from prison.
Mr. Khatry Addouh expressed his sincere congratulations to Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, on behalf of the Saharawi people and the Government of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and the leadership of Polisario Front, on the occasion of her release.
In his speech before of hundreds Saharawis present to the meeting to express their joy about the event, Mr. Addouh affirmed that "the Saharawi people are decided to continue their peaceful struggle for independence", adding that "even if the Moroccan Government transforms the whole territory to prisons, it can not stop the will of the Saharawi people to defend their legitimate rights to self-determination and independence".
On her side, Mrs. Khadija Hamdi, Member of the Saharawi Woman Union’s (SWU) Executive Bureau in Charge for Information, renewed the engagement of the Saharawi woman in the support of the Saharawi human rights activist, Aminatou Haidar, and all Saharawi political prisoners who are still under Moroccan custody.
She also hailed the Saharawi students’ movement and the Saharawi populations in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and south of Morocco, as well as all women movements that supported the Saharawi cause world wide.
Mrs. Khadija, finally announced, on behalf of SWU, the creation of a permanent Committee for the collect of support to the uprising of independence.
The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, addressed on Wednesday a message of congratulation to the Saharawi political prisoner, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, who was released by the Moroccan colonial authorities after having served 7 months imprisonment in very bad conditions of detention in the 'Carcel Negra' (black jail) of El Aaiun, it should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/100/TRD 191050 Jan 06 SPS
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SPS The Head of Sate invited in la Paz to attend the investiture of the Bolivian President Evo Morales
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Chahid El Hafed, 19/01/06 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, will get the Bolivian capital, la Paz, on Friday to take part to the ceremony of investiture of the new Bolivian President, Evo Morales, that will take place on Sunday, according to a source from the Saharawi Presidency.
The Head of the State is accompanied by an important Saharawi delegation composed of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, Saharawi Ambassador to Venezuela, Haj Ahmed Barek Allah, and the Councillor to the President, Mr. Aabdati Breika.
The two States, Bolivian and Saharawi, maintain very close relations of cooperation and friendship since the recognition by Bolivia of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic in December the 14th 1982.
According to sources close to the Bolivian department of Protocol, more than 50 governmental and organisational delegations will be received in the Bolivian capital starting from tomorrow, Friday, to Sunday.
Expected for Friday, the first group of visitors is composed of the Presidents of the Paraguay, Nicanos Duarte; of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, and of Slovinia, Janez Drnovsek.
On Saturday, the international airport of the Bolivian capital will receive the Heads of the States of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez; Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, and Ecuador, Alfredo Palacio; in addition to the under-Secretary of American State for America Latina, Thomas Shannon, and other delegations.
Sunday will be the day of the arrival of the Presidents of Argentina, Néstor Kirchner; Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva; Chile, Ricardo Lagos; Panama Martín Torrijos, and Peru, Alejandro Toledo, in addition to the Secretary General of The Organisation of the American States, José Miguel Insulza. (SPS)
060/090/000 191928 Jan 06 SPS
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SPS Karen Scheele happy about the release of Aminatou Haidar and ask for the release of all Saharawi political prisoners
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Brussels, 19/01/06 (SPS) The President of the European Parliament’s intergroup ‘Peace for the Saharawi people’ expressed, on Wednesday, her satisfaction about the release of Saharawi human rights activist, Mrs. Aminatu Haidar, calling on the Moroccan State to release all Saharawi political prisoners, according to a source from the Saharawi Representation in Brussels.
"We are happy about this information without forgetting that there are more than 55 Saharawi political prisoners, still under custody in Moroccan prisons because of unjust sentences", Mrs. Scheele declared in a press release she publicised on the occasion.
The European Parliamentarian also asked for "their immediate release, the immediate stopping of the repression against the Saharawi population and the respect of human rights in Western Sahara as well as in Morocco, in addition of the enforcement of the peace process supervised by the United Nations for the organisation of a just, transparent and free referendum, which will allow the Saharawi people to freely exercise their right to self-determination".
On another hand, she "asked the Moroccan Government to give Aminatou Haidar her civil rights back , so as she can exercise her rights to circulation, exercise her political activities without pressures as well as to give her all the documents she needs to travel if she wants".
Saharawi human rights activists and political prisoner, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, was released this Tuesday by the Moroccan colonial authorities after she served 7 months imprisonment in very bad conditions in the notorious Carcel Negra (black jail) in El Aaiun, reported the correspondent of SPS on the ground, it should be recalled. (SPS)
070/090/100/TRD 182127 Jan 06 SPS
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