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SPS Tamek: "We did not ask for pardon or amnesty because we committed no crime" 24.04.05
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El Aaiun (occupied territories- Western Sahara), 24/04/2006 (SPS) "We Did not ask for pardon or amnesty because we committed no crimes", the Saharawi political prisoner and human right activist, Ali Salem Tamek, declare don Saturday to he Spanish journalist, Luís de Vega, of the newspaper “ABC”, after the release of the 38 Saharawi political prisoner.
The Saharawi human rights activist affirmed, upon his getting out from the 'Cárcel Negra' (Black Jail) in El Aaiun, the capital of the Western Sahara, that "the Western Sahara must be free and we completely reject the plan of autonomy and support solutions such as the Baker Plan".
"Our opinion and consciousness remain the same", asserted Ali Salem Tamek, who was arrested last July the 18th 2005 upon his return from a visit to Europe coming from Las Palmas de Carnias. He was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment in a trial qualified as illegal and doubtful by local and international human rights organisations.
Tamek, who is 29 years old, married an father to a daughter, is an imminent human rights defender, is living now in the occupied city of El Aaiun. He was arrested and imprisoned many times, undertook 17 hunger strikes in Moroccan prisons, and suffered many intimidations, deportations and tortures, it should be recalled. (SPS)
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SPS 9 persons wounded after a demonstration in the occupied capital of the Western Sahara
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El Aaiun (occupied territories- Western Sahara), 24/04/2006 (SPS) 9 Saharawi citizens ere wounded during a popular reception organised to the Saharawi human rights activist and political prisoner, Brahim Dahan, reported SPS’s correspondent on the ground.
Dozens Saharawi citizens and youngsters gathered in front of the house of the human rights activist and political prisoner in a peaceful demonstration last Sunday night. The participants raised the flags of the Saharawi Republic and chanted slogans asking for the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan occupying forces from the Western Sahara.
The Moroccan colonial forces immediately intervened against the Saharawi demonstrators, making excessive use of force and causing serious wounds to 9 Saharawi citizens, mainly Misara Dahan, yehdiha Dahan, Alia Beiruk, Abuha Sinia, ElMusawi Chreifa, Abdalahi Sidi Haiba, Malainin Abhi, Mohamed Salem Bah and Meydani Fatma Embarek.
The Saharawi activist and also President of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Human rights violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVVDH), Brahim Dahan, and other 37 Saharawi political prisoners were released last Saturday the 22nd of April by the Moroccan colonial authorities after having served long and unjust sentences in Moroccan prisons.(SPS)
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SPS Departure of a caravan of solidarity with the Saharawi people on Monday
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Roma, 24/04/2006 (SPS) A caravan of solidarity with the Saharawi people will depart this Monday from the port of La Spezia heading to the Algerian port of Oran before getting to the Saharawi refugee camps, indicated a press release issued by the Italina National Association of solidarity with the Saharawi people (ANSPS), the initiator of the operation, Algerian Press Agency, APS, reported.
This caravan, the 18th of its kind, is composed of 7 vehicles representing the Italian associations of solidarity with the Saharawi people in many Italian regions (Catane, Florence, Emilie Romagna, Udine, Pouilles), and is brining to the refugees food and equipment as a help to the Saharawi refugees victims of the last floods that stroke the camps last February.
The members of the caravan will also hand over financial help for many projects launched by the Saharawi authorities, it was indicated.(SPS)
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SPS Algeria warns against a "distortion" of the international legality
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New York, 24/04/2006 (SPS) The Algerian Minister of State, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohammed Bedjaoui, affirmed on Monday to the UN’s Secretary General, Kofi Annan, that his last report on the Western Sahara included some "deficiencies" that risk leading to a "big distortion" of the international legality, reported Algerian Press Agency, APS, quoting a diplomatic source.
In a meeting with the UN’s Secretary General at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, Mr. Bedjaoui "reaffirmed at a first hand the position of Algeria on the Western Sahara and stressed on the deficiencies of the SG’s report" issued last Wednesday.
These deficiencies "risk to by pass the international legality regarding the settlement of the Western Sahara question", Mr. Bedjaoui warned.
"All the UN’s resolutions had, in fact, underlined the attachment to the principle of self-determination for the Saharawi people. It is thus on the basis of this international legality that the UN’s Settlement Plan and the Baker Plan were adopted", Mr. Bedjaoui recalled.
The Head of the Algerian diplomacy "particularly insisted on the big distortion that risks to occur if the UN’s Security Council and Secretary General ignored this international legality, because that would probably generate serious consequences on the stability of the region".
The UN’s Secretary General "agreed on this analysis and asserted that he wil recommend that the project of resolution that will be adopted by the Security Council stress the necessity of negotiations between the two parties to the conflict, Polisario Front and Morocco, and the necessity of the implementation of the principle of self-determination", the same source added.
The meeting between Mr. Bedjaoui and Annan intervenes in the eve of the meeting, on Tuesday, of the UN’s Security Council to discuss the SG’s report on the situation in the Western Sahara. (SPS)
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SPS The Prime Minister receives the President of the regional council of the Emilia-Romagna
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Chahid El Hafed, 24/04/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Prime Minister, Abdelkader Taleb Oumar, received the President of the regional Council of Emilia-Romagna (Toscana), Mrs. Monica Donini, on Monday at the seat of his Ministry, with the presence of an important Italian delegation of her region undertaking a visit to the Saharawi Republic.
"The presence of Italia besides the Saharawi people in their legitimate struggle for freedom and independence goes far back in the past, and it was rehearsed by your presence heading this delegation, which will certainly contribute to reinforce the relations of cooperation and friendship between our two peoples and countries", the Saharawi Prime Minister said addressing his guest.
On her side Mrs. Donini stressed "the high level of civilisation of the Saharawi people, their political maturity and culture of democracy and peace", that reinforce her "conviction about your right to build your independent State".
In her meeting with the Prime Minister, she discussed the different aspects of cooperation between her region and the Saharawi public health’s institutions. She further declared that her region will organise an international conference of solidarity with the Saharawi people so as to amplify "the support of this just cause within Europe, and to exercise pressures on Morocco so as to compel it subscribe to the international legality and the human rights in the Western Sahara".
The meeting between the two parties were attended, by the Saharawi Minister for Cooperation, Salek Baba Hacena and Mih Oumar, Representative of Polisario Front in Italy.
On the Italian side, the meeting was attended by Mr. Nando Mainari, Cef de Cabinet of the President of the Italian regional council of Emilia-Romagna, Ugo Mazza, Regional Councilor, Gianluigui Lio and the Person in charge for cooperation, Maurizio Casini. (SPS)
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