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SPS OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION Three young Saharawi detained by Moroccan colonial police in the occupied city of Smara 20.07.05
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Smara (occupied territories), 20/07/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi citizens,
Mohamed Salem Bahaha, Hajaj Mauloud and Didaa Abdessalam were arrested on
Tuesday by the Moroccan colonial police in the occupied city of Smara during a
peaceful demonstration organised by the Saharawi population against the Moroccan
occupation of the Western Sahara, according to trustworthy sources.
The neighbourhood of "Nasr", in this occupied city, was the theatre of a "wide"
operation of distribution of leaflets that advocate "the immediate withdrawal of
the Moroccan occupation from the Western Sahara" and the right of the "Saharawi
people to self-determination and independence", the same sources added.
On another hand, more than 400 policemen were transferred to this occupied city
and integrated to the mobile companies of Intervention (CIM), in addition to
some 300 new agents of the secret services, to reinforce the Moroccan repressive
forces in the occupied Smara.
Other 800 new Moroccan gendarmes were brought last Tuesday to "Feim El Wad" (El
Aaiun Beach) to oppress possible demonstrations by Saharawis and to terrorise
the Saharawi population, the same sources added.
070/090/100/TRD 201139 Jul 06 SPS
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SPS OCCUPIED TERRITRIES/REPRESSION The Moroccan colonial court of appeal in El Aaiun approves sentences against three Saharawi political prisoners
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 20/07/2006 (SPS) The Moroccan colonial
court of appeal in El Aaiun approved, on Thursday in the occupied capital of the
Western Sahara, El Aaiun, the sentences of three years imprisonment against
three Saharawi political prisoners already decided by the court of first
instance last July the 14, a Saharawi NGO indicated.
The Secretary General of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant
Human Rights Violation Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVVGDHEM as abbreviated
in French), Brahin Sabbar and Mr. HADDI Ahmed Mahmoud El Kainan were sentenced
three years imprisonment each, while the brother of the latter: Mr. HADDI Saleh
sentenced one year suspended imprisonment, according to ASVVGDHEM.
The three Saharawi human rights activists wer arrested last June the 17, 2006
upon their return to the occupied city of El Aaiun coming back from the occupied
city of Boujdour where they supervised the constitution of a new local section
of the ASVVGDHEM. They were subjected to ill-treatments and torture for more
than tend days before been transferred to prison in El Aaiun.
The three men are accused of "constituting a criminal band, incitation and
participation to violence, destruction of public properties, insult against
employees of the State, Membership to an armed group and adherence to
unauthorised association", according to the examining magistrate of the Moroccan
colonial court in El Aaiun.
ASVVGDHEM estimated in its press release that the sentences only targeted "the
activism of the accused in the domain of the defence of the human rights",
deploring that "no investigation was opened to look into the ill-treatment and
torture the detainees were subjected to during their arrest and while in police
custody".
"These detainees were targeted because of the political positions relating to
the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, as well as their activity as
human rights defenders in the Western Sahara", the press release stressed. (SPS)
010/090/110/TRD 202147 JUL 06 SPS
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SPS AMERICA LATINA/FORUM The International Forum for Direct Democracy asks for Membership of the Saharawi Republic in the United Nations
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Managua, 20/07/2006 (SPS) The International Forum for Direct Democracy, recently held in Nicaragua, asked for the admission of the Saharawi Republic in the United Nations, affirming that this step will "help in pushing the King of Morocco, Mohamed VI, respect the accords of peace that were signed by his representatives", according to a resolution approved by the Forum, of which SPS received a copy.
The resolution also launches an appeal to the international community to "work with efficiency to concretise peace in the Western Sahara, through the celebration of a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people".
The Saharawi party was represented by the Envoy of the President of the Republic also Saharawi Ambassador in Mexico, Mr. Ahmed Mulay Ali, accompanied by many representatives of left parties from many Latino American countries. (SPS)
070/090/100/TRD 201948 jul. 06 SPS
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