SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Chahid El Hafed, 24/08/2004 (SPS) Saharawi Union of Jurists (UJS), denounced Tuesday the brutal intervention of Moroccan authorities of occupation against Saharawi family of Mr. Bachir Seiciri, expressing its preoccupation about the alarming situation of human rights in occupied territories of Western Sahara, indicated a communiqué of the Union SPS received.
 
"Sunday night, some drunken Moroccan police agents in civil clothing had brutally entered in the house of Bachir Seiciri insulting the members of his family. During this intervention the Saharawi family was subjected to ill-treatment, beaten, tortured and insulted", underlined the communiqué.

As a result to the ill-treatment the mother, Fatimetu Ebleila, was taken in emergency to the military hospital of El Aaiun. She had "many injuries and her daughter Emneia Seicri, is equally seriously injured in her hands and feet", added the same source.

The UJS called the United Nations, which is present in Western Sahara since 1991 to intervene to "put an end to the tragedy Saharawi people is living in occupied territories of Western Sahara". 
 
To UJS "these violations will only end by the establishment of peace through the organisation of a fair and impartial referendum on Self-determination under the aegis of the UN, in order to allow Saharawi people to freely choose the final status of this territory".

On another hand, another Saharawi citizen, Mahmoud Mustafa Haddad, was imprisoned last Wednesday by Moroccan police in El for having changed a Moroccan flag by the Saharawi one… he was tortured and burned with cigarettes and is actually in the Black Jail (Carcela Negra) in El Aaiun.(SPS)

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SPS
SADR/MAURITANIA
The Envoy of the President of the Republic received by the Head of the Sate of Mauritania

Nouakchott, 24/08/2004 (SPS) The Envoy of the President of the Republic, Khalil Sidi Mohamed, Minister of occupied territories and Saharawi communities abroad, was received Monday in Nouakchott by Mr. Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, reported an official source. 

Mr. Khalil declared to the Mauritanian Press Agency (AMI) that he handed over to Mauritanian President a message from his Saharawi counterpart, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the SADR. "This message of solidarity is of concerned with enforcing the relationships of fraternity and exchange of contacts concerning the dominating situation in Western Sahara", he said.

The Saharawi envoy, then, put forward the considerable success Mauritania realised in development, indicated AMI.
 
The meeting took place with the presence of Mr. Ahmed Salem Ould Tebakh, Counsellor at the Mauritanian Presidency (SPS)

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