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SPS Aminatou haidar received by Mr. Aziz Pahad in Pretoria 24.06.05
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(Special Envoy)
Pretoria, 23/06/2006, (SPS) The Saharawi human rights activist and ex–political prisoner, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, was received on Friday morning by the South African Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Aziz Pahad, in his Bureau in the South African Governmental "Union Building" within the framework of the visit the Saharawi activist in undertaking in Africa since last June the 18th.
The meeting between the two parties, "is an opportunity for us to hear from you and to have a clearer idea about the human rights situation in the Western Sahara", Mr. Pahad said addressing the Saharawi activist, affirming to her "the total and principled support of the South African Government to the legitimate struggle of the Saharawi people".
Mrs. Haidar gave to her interlocutor a detailed exposition on the human rights situation in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, calling on the South African Government to opt for more political action but also humanitarian actions "to help in the resolution of the conflict and at the same time protect the Saharawi population in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara and South Morocco".
"The Saharawi people not only suffers from flagrant violation of all their political, economical, cultural and social rights, but also violate their inalienable right to self-determination and freedom", Mrs. Haidar underlined.
The Saharawi Human rights activist and ex-political prisoner, Aminatou Haidar, was received on Wednesday evening in Cape Town, by the South African Minister for Foreign affairs, Mrs. Dlamini Zuma, within the framework of the official visit of mobilisation the Saharawi activist is undertaking or the second week so far in South Africa to inform about the human rights situation in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.
The Head of the South African diplomacy reiterated "the principled position of her country in favour of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence. But also, the determination of South Africa, to undertake all necessary measures and efforts to put an end to this problem" of uncompleted decolonisation.
The meeting, which was very constructive and intimate between the two women, was also attended by the D.G of the South African FA Ministry, Dr. Ayanda Ntsaluba, and the Deputy Director of the Desk of North Africa within the same Ministry, Mr. Dion Seals.
Sunday evening, it should be recalled, the South African Director of the North African Department, Ambassador Delarey Van Tonder, had declared during a dinner he offered on the honour of Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, in Sheraton Hotel in Pretoria, that it "it is impossible to speak about the development of Africa while a member State of its Union is under colonisation".
Mrs. Haidar had in addition met on Monday morning in Johannesburg, with the Head of the South African National Congress Department of International Affairs (ANC), Mrs. Mavivi Myakayaka-Mannzini, who reaffirmed the commitment of her party "towards your legitimate right to liberation and independence".
Right after this meeting, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, had had, in the same morning, a very deep and warm meeting for an hour with the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Sue Van Der Merve. The Saharawi human rights activist informed her interlocutor in this very touching encounter about the "very serious situation of the human rights in the Western Sahara".
On another hand, the Saharawi human right activist, whose visit to South Africa stirred up the concern of the national press, has been interviewed by the South African Satellite TV, SABC Africa, and other African means of communication, was able thus to inform the South African and international public opinion about the Moroccan human rights abuses in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.
060/PRETORIA/000 241300 June 06 SPS
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SPS Aminatou Hadiar animates in Pretoria a conference on the human rights situation in the Western Sahara
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(Special Envoy)
Pretoria, 23/06/2006, (SPS) The Saharawi human rights activist and ex-political prisoner, Aminatou Haidar, animated, Friday morning in Pretoria, a conference debate organised by the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) and the institute for Global Dialogue(IGD),on the human rights situation in the Western Sahara.
Attended by more than thirty persons, including intellectuals, searchers, professors, scholars and members of the diplomatic corps in Pretoria, the conference was opened by Mrs. Chaela Bunwaree, President of the department of researches in AISA, who presented the Saharawi activist to the audience, to give the opportunity to Mrs. Aminatou Haidar to present an exposition about the current situation of the human rights violations in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.
A debate directly followed the exposition, which touched the audience, and Mrs. Haidar had to answer many question by the intellectuals who expressed a big preoccupation with regard to the suffering and of the Saharawi population under occupation.
The intellectuals, from different African nationalities, considered that it is necessary to remain in contact with the Saharawi human rights activists to follow the developments of the situation in the coming years, and to be able to adopt a common strategy that would lobby the Western Sahara. (SPS)
060/PRETORIA/000 241420 juin 06 SPS
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SPS Modene Communal Council calls on the Italian Government to recognises the Saharawi Republic
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Roma, 24/06/2006 (SPS) Modene Communal Council (Emilie Romagna region- Italy) calls on the Italian Government to recognise the Saharawi Republic and to start concrete political and diplomatic actions within the European Union (EU) for the recognition of this country.
In a document that was unanimously approved by the members, the Council also called on the central government to support the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination via the organisation of a referendum, as indicate din the Baker Plan and reaffirmed in the UN’s resolutions.
The Communal Council of Modene considers "the international opinion’s silence in front of the violated rights of the Saharawi people as unacceptable, as well as the isolation to which they are condemned for more than 30 years". It underlined the emergency of adopting a "clear and irrevocable" position to put an end to the sufferings of the Saharawi people.
The document also asks for the respect of the human rights in the occupied territories, the dispatch of international observers to impose the respect of these rights and to condemn Morocco for "the use of landmines along the Moroccan military wall erected in the Western Sahara". (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 240935 June 06 SPS
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SPS Harassment against an ex-political prisoner in El Aaiun
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 24/06/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi ex-political prisoner, Yaya Bachir, was arrested last Friday, in company of his compatriot and ex-political prisoner, Targui Malainin, by Moroccan agents of the Urban Group of Security (GUS), according to a testimony publicised on Saturday by Mr. Bachir, of which SPS received a copy.
"While I was walking in Smara Street, near Maatallah neighbourhood, in company of the ex-political prisoner Targui Malainine, a blue car stopped near us and two agents got off to grab us and force us inside the car without warning", the ex-political prisoner, Yaya Bachir, wrote.
"Directly after that the Moroccan agents started beating us in the car during our way to a centre of torture where we were subjected to all forms of inhumane and terrible methods of torture for 24 hours", he said.
"They poured a burning chemical liquid on my organs and cigarettes on my body". "They even sexually harassed me and forces me to sign a document of which I ignore the content and nature, before driving me outside the city where they abandoned me in a very bad state", Mr, Yaya added in his testimony.
"Fortunately, some citizens drive me back home in their car. After a medical checking the doctor decided I was physically inapt for 30 days", the ex-political prisoner stressed in his testimony. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 241030 /06 SPS
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