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SPS OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION A Saharawi activist in coma in the hospital of El Aaiun 25.06.05
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 25/6/2006 (SPS) Saharawi activist, Ahmed Sabai, was led to hospital in complete coma because of a heart attack after he was recently arrested with three other Saharawi human rights activists, including the Secretary general of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Human Rights Violations Committee by the Moroccan State (ASVVGDHEM), the ex-political prisoner, Brahim Sabbar.
Mr. Sbai, who suffered from a heart attack m was imprisoned in a cell with some 55 criminal prisoners, concordant sources indicated.
He had previously asked for provisional transfer to another cell while waiting for been transferred to the cells of political prisoners with other Saharawi political detainees. But his request was rejected by the responsible of the penitentiary centre, Ben Chorfi.
Mr. Sbai, estimated that the Moroccan penitentiary authorities must assume "the responsibility" of the consequences that may result in case his state of health deteriorates.
In the occupied city of Smara, some Saharawi students raised the flag of the Saharawi Republic instead of the Moroccan one in their school.
A little earlier, a Saharawi citizen was arrested in Smara and submitted to interrogatories for more than 2 hours by the torturer, Salah Eddine Alarbeidi and two of his assistants, the same sources indicated. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 251320 June 06 SPS
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SPS MOROCCO/HUMAN RIGHTS Torture took an alarming extent in Morocco, according to Moroccan NGO
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Rabat, 25/06/2006 (SPS) The exercise of torture ''took a n alarming proportions during these last months", A Moroccan NGO expressed concern saying that this phenomenon perpetrates ''the serious human rights violations in Morocco''.
The Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH), expressed its concern, in a press release it issued on the occasion of the International Day for the Support of the Victims to Torture, about the 'extent of the exercise of torture these last months in Morocco''.
''These serious human rights violations started by physical violations to end with the violent death of persons tortured by he Moroccan police authorities'', the NGO stressed adding that ''an unexplainable violence was exercised against peaceful demonstrators, who were asking for social, economical and administrative amelioration of situation of the citizens''.
AMDH, which gave many examples of cases of torture in the police station and in gendarmerie stations to ''get forcibly get confessions'', recalled the many cases of killed Saharawi victims, especially Hamdi Lembarki in El Aaiun (Western Sahara), Larbi Souabni qnd Mohammadia, Adil Zayati and finally, just last May the death of Mr. Abdelghafour Haddad in Salé (near Rabat).
In order that Morocco ''become a country without torture and impunity, it should ratify all the international conventions against torture'', AMDH estimates, adding that ''justice also must be transparent and independent".
Morocco was listed these last two years, by international human rights organisations, such as Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch, among the countries where torture is still systematically practiced during interrogatories.
The American organisation, Human Rights Watch, accused the Moroccan authorities in its report ''of doing little for the respect of human dignity in Moroccan prisons''. (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 251739 June 06 SPS
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SPS SADR/OIL The President of the Republic receives the Director of "Comet Oil"
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Chahid El Hafed, 25/06/2006 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, received, on Saturday at the sat of the presidency, the Director of the British oil company, "Comet Oil", actually undertaking a visit to the Saharawi Republic.
Mr. Groom reaffirmed, to the national press, the engagement of his company in favour of the "Saharawi people legitimate right to independence" and its determination to "keep up with its cooperation with the Saharawi Republic".
"Optimist regarding the oil and gas potential of the Saharawi Republic", Mr. Groom added that following the accord with other Oil companies that signed an agreement with the Saharawi Government, his company "will make use of all its relations in favour of a solution to the conflict in favour of the legitimate interest of the Saharawi people".
Mr. Groom, who visited the Wilaya of Smara and in the 27 of February camps, declared having been "impressed by the resistance of the Saharawi people and their capacity to organise themselves in such a difficult context as exile".
"Comet oil", in addition to 7 other Oil companies, signed last March 2006 in London an agreement of cooperation with the Saharawi Republic, and chose the offshore region of "Guelta", for its activities of exploration, it should be underlined. (SPS)
010/090/100/TRD 251023 June 06 SPS
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