Chahid El Hafed, 19/08/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Association of the Families of the Prisoners and Disappeared (AFAPREDESA) and the Union of the Saharawi Jurists (UJS) called on the international human rights organisations, on Thursday, to "protect the Saharawi civilians from the flagrant human rights violations,  the Moroccan State is committing since its invasion of the Saharawi territory in 1975 so far", indicated a press release publicised the same day by the two NGOs.

AFAPREDESA and UJS launched an "urgent call" to all organisations and UN’s bodies concerned with the human rights, especially the UN’s Secretary General Special Representative for human rights, Hina Jilani to "dispatch an international ad-hoc commission to the occupied territories of the Western Sahara so as to investigate on the flagrant violations committed by the Moroccan State against the Saharawi citizens and human rights defenders in these zones".

The two Saharawi NGOs also denounced the expulsion from the borders of the Western Sahara to which the Saharawi human rights activist, Ali Salem Tamek, was subjected by the Moroccan services of security, upon his coming from Tan Tan.

AFAPREDESA and UJS expressed their "solidarity and unconditional support" to all the Saharawi political prisoners and hold the Moroccan Government as accountable for "the consequences that may result" from such human rights violations in the Western Sahara.

They finally called on the Moroccan Government "to immediately release all the Saharawi political prisoners, the 150 Saharawi prisoners of war, and to account for more than 526 Saharawi victims of forced disappearance as well as the opening of the Saharawi territory to the foreign press, observers and parliamentarians". (SPS)

020/090/000/TRD 191209 Aug 06 SPS


 

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