SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE

SPS
SADR/ALGERIA/SOLIDARITY

CNASPS asks the UN to undertake "urgent measures" for the protection of the defenceless Saharawi population

20.12.05

Algiers, 20/12/2005 (SPS) The Algerian National Committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS) called on he UN’s Security Council and all the competent international bodies to undertake "urgent measures" so as to protect the Saharawi people against "the serious human rights abuses and the colonial repression" that is daily perpetrated in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

In a press release publicised on Monday, of which SPS received a copy, The CNASPS also launched an appeal to the international community so as to give justice to the Saharawi people’s issue being the "last case" of decolonisation in the African continent, and so as they can enjoy their inalienable right to self-determination and independence.

Moreover, the Committee asked for the enabling of the people of the Western Sahara to exercise their right to self-determination "conforming to the Baker Plan" and to the resolution "1495", which was unanimously adopted by the UN’s Security Council in July the 30th 2003, supporting thus Saharawi people’s legitimate struggle and their unique representative, Polisario Front.

The press release regretted that Morocco, who is still insensitive to the international community, continues to "harshly and violently" oppress peaceful demonstrations of the Saharawi civilians and human rights defenders in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. (SPS)

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SPS
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/JUDGEMENTS

10 young Saharawis brought before the Moroccan colonial court in El Aaiun

El Aaiun (occupied territories), 20/12/2005 (SPS) 10 young Saharawis were brought before the examining magistrate of the Moroccan colonial court in El Aaiun, including 4 young girls arrested during demonstrations that took place last Friday in the occupied capital of SADR, in favour of the self-determination of the Saharawi people, concordant sources announced.

Among the 10 detainees who were brought before the examining magistrate of the Moroccan colonial court in El Aaiun, there was 4 young girls, mainly Misses Soukania Daddi Elud, Maalouma Sidi Elarbi Arabi, Mounina Ahmed Ail-lal, Umessad Embarek, were released after having spent three days detention, and after having been submitted to all sorts of torture in the criminal police’s station and in the famous secret detention camp, PC-CMI.

The six other youngmen, Echain Mohamed Hassan Emboirik, Ait Abeilou Brahim Hossein Embarek, Inyurni Baha Mohamed Sailamou, Leghzal Taher Mohamed Hamou, Amaidan Cheij Bachir Maulud and Haddi Maulud Aliyen Lehbib, were transferred to the Carcel negra (Black Prison) in El Aaiun, the same source stressed.

On another hand, a new list of 12 wounded persons was added to the lists that were publicised after the demonstrations that took place last Friday in the occupied capita of El Aaiun, and most of them were found abandoned outside the city in very bad shape.

Here is the additional lis of the wounded persons:
-          Ahmed Sidati Abdeljalil    (wounded)
-          Baka Sid'Ahmed Bel-la    (wounded)
-          Mohamed Mrabih Abdeljalil        (found abandoned in Foueim Elouad)
-          Brahim Hamdi Taher                 (found abandoned in Khat Ramla)
-          Baba Ahmed Mohamed Salem Taglabout     (wounded)
-          Brahim Salem Ferrah Salama    (wounded)
-          Rabab Mohamed Ahaimed        (wounded)
-          Oumelvadli Lefdhil Khalil
-          Salka Rgueibi M'boirik      (found abandoned in Gneidlev)
-          Bah Baba Ali (found abandoned in Khat Ramla)
-          Bah El Hafed         (wounded)

The same source indicated that the last demonstrations of El Aaiun that took place two days after the iniquitous trials of 14 Saharawi political prisoners by he Moroccan colonial court, has exceeded 60 wounded persons. (SPS)

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SPS
SADR/CONFERENCE

The President of the Republic chairs a National conference of officials

27 of February School (Saharawi refugee camps), 20/12/2005 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, chaired, on Monday in the 27 of February School, a national conference of Polisario Front’s cadres to discuss about the preparations for the celebration of the 30^th anniversary of the Saharawi Republic and about the current situation in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

An ambitious programme was presented by the Prime Minister, Abdelkader Taleb Oumar, on the preparation for the anniversary of the Saharawi Republic, which will take place in Tifariti in the liberated territories as a proof that "our people exercises their national sovereignty on the liberated territories of their country", the Prime Minister said addressing hundreds political officials and national cadres.

"This event will also be an occasion to recall the denial of Morocco of its engagements and the compassion of the international community towards this attitude, which we can not indefinitely tolerate", he warned, adding that "Saharawi people can not stay inactive", quoting the speech of the President of the Republic during the last Congress of Polisario Front in Tifariti last October 2003.

The Minister of the Occupied Territories and Saharawi Communities abroad and the Minister of Information exposed a detailed report and a chronology of the evens of the popular uprising in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. They stressed on the "human rights violations in Western Sahara, including tortures, arbitrary arrests, iniquitous trials" and "the forms of the peaceful struggle adopted by the Saharawi people under Moroccan occupation".

The speakers were unanimous in backing their compatriots in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, who are facing "the Moroccan repressive machine" as well as the Moroccan attempts to block the territory to the international observers, and all the means of communication that support the Saharawi cause.

A final communiqué concluded the works of the conference and launched an appeal to the Saharawi people everywhere to back the Saharawi popular uprising and to participate in the success of the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Saharawi Republic in the liberated territories, as "a challenge we must take, parting from the importance of the event and of the material organisation it requires".

A special motion was accorded to the Moroccan democratic forces, especially the Annahj Dimoucrati (Democratic Path Party) and Moroccan organisations of Human rights for their "integrity and courage in denouncing human rights violations in the Western Sahara and in their support to Saharawi people’s right to self-determination". (SPS)

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SPS
SADR/CONFERENCE

"Nothing can weaken the strong determination of Saharawis", the President of the Republic says

27 of February School (Saharawi refugee camps), 20/12/2005 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, affirmed that "Nothing can weaken the strong determination of Saharawis in their struggle for their freedom and independence", refereeing to the bloody repression led by the Moroccan colonial forces against the defenceless Saharawi civil population in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

In his intervention during the end of the national conference of Polisario Front’s officials, which took place in the 27 of February School under the theme "30 years and the Saharawi State remains an irreversible reality", the Head of the State stressed on "the peaceful nature of the struggle waged by the Saharawi population in the occupied territories and south of Morocco".

"The popular uprising in the Saharawi territories occupied by Morocco entered a new phase since the assassination of Martyrs Hamdi Lembarki and Lekhlifi Abba Chiekh", the President of the Republic estimated.

Mr. Abdelaziz affirmed that his people, "who are peaceful by nature", are still opting for "the peaceful solution to the conflict", underlining that the Moroccan people "has never backed the colonial adventure of their Government in Western Sahara", knowing that the two peoples "are brothers been the members of the same nation and the same religion and having always maintained good relations of neighbourhood".

The national conference of officials, which was baptised by the name of Martyr, Lekhlifi Abba Cheikh, who was assassinated last December the 3rd in Tantan (south Morocco) by Moroccan policeman in the middle of the street, was attended by hundreds officials of Polisario Front and of the Saharawi Republic. (SPS)

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