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SPS Moroccan NGOs ask for the release of Saharawi activists 25.12.05
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Rabat, 25/12/2005 (SPS) A Moroccan NGO called on the Moroccan Minister of
Justice, on Saturday, to "release all political prisoners", illegally detained,
especially the Saharawi activists. They also denounce the conditions in which
their trials took place, reported Algerian News Press, APS.
In a letter addressed to the Moroccan Minister of Justice, reported by APS, the
Executive Bureau of the Moroccan Forum for Truth and Justice (FVJ), denounced
the heavy sentences against Saharawi activists as well as the numerous human
rights’ violations remarked by observers during these prisoners’ trials that
lasted for 15 hours.
FVJ, which
has denounced the conditions of the progress, last December the 13th, of the
Saharawi human rights activists’ trials in El Aaiun (the capital of Western
Sahara), launched an appeal to the Moroccan Minister of justice to release the
14 Saharawi activists, who are condemned to heavy sentences going between six
months to three years.
The Ngo, further, reiterated its call for the release of all the Saharawi
political prisoners still under custody in Moroccan prisons, and whose lists
were transmitted to the Moroccan judicial authorities.
The FVJ expressed, however, its astonishment about the fact that "this kind of
prisoners did not benefited from pardon like the prisoners of common rights".
"The persistence of detention for political reasons is completely contradictory
with the expressed will of turning the page of the serious violations of human
rights", the Moroccan NGO estimated, adding that "this state irreparably blocks
the establishment of the State of law".
On its part the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) noted, during the
meeting of its Executive Bureau on Saturday, "the worrying decline of human
rights (in Morocco)", and denounced the persistence of the serious violations of
individual an collective freedoms. (SPS)
020/090/700/TRD 251010 Dec 05 SPS
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SPS The repression in Western Sahara became a "routine", a Spanish radio station notes
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Madrid, 25/12/2005 (SPS) The repression exercised by the Moroccan forces
in Western Sahara became a "routine", noted the Spanish Radio, Cadena SER, the
most popular radio in Spain, in its website, reported Algerian Press Agency, APS,
on Saturday.
"In the face of the steady demonstrations, which are organised since last May in
the Saharawi cities advocating independence, Morocco reacts like in its worst
years of violence", the Radio underlined, estimating that the policy adopted on
the question of Western Sahara proves that the "practices of the Alaouit
Monarchy are still dominant".
According to information this Spanish radio got, "for the last days, the Groups
of Urban Security (GUS) arrested Saharawi adolescents who participated to
rallies or demonstrated in their schools and abandoned them in the middle of the
desert, some 40 Km far from El Aaiun" (the Capital of Western Sahara).
Cadena SER also reported that Moroccan police undertakes "arbitrary search of
houses", during which the "physical safety of old persons, women and children is
not respected".
The radio further noted that the cities of Dakhla, Smara, Boujdour and El Aaiun
are the theatre, "of daily confrontation, detentions and intimidations". (SPS)
020/090/700/TRD 251025 Dec 05 SPS
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