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SPS An Algerian-Saharawi meeting of solidarity in the Saharawi refugee camps 27.04.05
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El Aaiun (refugee camps), 27/06/2006 (SPS) An important delegation of the representatives of the Algerian civil society arrived to the Saharawi refugee camps to participate to a meeting of solidarity with the Saharawi people, as a sign of support to the just Saharawi cause.
The Algerian Committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS), which is the co-organiser in addition to the Saharawi authorities of this three days event, stated that the encounter is "an expression of the engagement with the Saharawi people in this stage when the UN’s Security Council must decide over their destiny".
It is also a "recognition of the courage of the people of the Western Sahara, their determining participation to the preservation of the Saharawi identity, to the education of the children and to the managing of the refugee camps", stressed a press release issued Wednesday in Algiers by the CNASPS.
In this occasion, the CNASPS calls on the UN’s Security Council to "keep in mind that its moral and juridical responsibilities remains fully engaged in the implementation of the resolutions that are the basis to the international legality, consecrating the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination through a free referendum", the press release stressed.
The Committee, which noted "with regrets" that the UN’s Secretary General’s report evokes "a Real politick" that hinders the international organisations "with regard to the implementation of its resolutions", considers that this "is a distortion that may have dangerous consequences and a way to abandon the attachment to the international legality".
Recalling the unanimous decision of the Security Council in July 2003, in favour of the self-determination of the Saharawi people and rejected by Morocco, the Committee estimated that the "response so long awaited for from the international bodies", to resolve the conflict, "is not to search and impose an option that is no more than a solution supporting the position o the occupying force (...)". (SPS)
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SPS 16 persons arrested and 8 other wounded in confrontations in the occupied city of El Aaiun
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 27/04/2006 (SPS) 16 Saharawi citizens, including 9 recently released Saharawi political prisoners, were arrested on Wednesday in the occupied city of El Aaiun during confrontations between the Moroccan colonial forces and Saharawi demonstrators, who were "demonstrating to denounce the Moroccan Government’s intransigence" and to advocate the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence, reported SPS’s correspondent on the ground.
The demonstrators also organised a sit-in calling the Moroccan authorities to "account for 16 Saharawi reported missing since last December the 25th, 2005", the same source indicated.
The Moroccan forces of repression, which intervened brutally to disperse the demonstrators, arrested a group of 9 ex Saharawi political prisoners, right after they left the house of the Saharawi political prisoner, Alouatt Sidi Mohamed, to congratulate him for having been released by the Moroccan colonial authorities, Last Saturday, in company de 37 other Saharawi political prisoners.
The arrested prisoners are: Nafaa Bouchama, Sghaîr Mahfoudh, Baba Al Arabi, Al Ansari Mohamed Salem, Daha Tanji, Ndour Sid'Ahmed, Saleh Rgueibi, Amidan Cheikh, Zreiguinatt Houssein. While another 7 Saharawi citizens were also arrested by the Moroccan authorities, mainly Abdallah Sidi Mahmoud, Mohamed Salem Boutenguiza, Aziza Mouloud Dadi, Mohamed Salem Abderrahmane Heiba, Siyda Abderrahmane Heiba, Moulaye El Houssein and Mohamed Fadel Choueikh.
Among the wounded in this confrontation the report named Sidi Salem Dlil, Moustapha Sidi Mahmoud, Benta Boutenguiza, Douiba Mokhtar, M'barka Sid'Ahmed Deya, Mohamed Sidi, Abdelaziz Dahane and Sid'Ahmed Boutenguiza, who "are suffering wounds on the different parts of their bodies".
It should be underlined that the house of the family of the recently Saharawi political prisoner, Alouatt Sidi Mohamed, "is still under tight surveillance", the same source added. (SPS)
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SPS Political prisoners and repression: Abdelaziz addresses the UN’s Secretary General
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Bir Lehlu, 27/04/2006 (SPS) 13 Saharawi political prisoners remain under detention, 9 others, who were recently released, were arrested again, while 5 other persons at least were wounded in new demonstrations in the occupied cities of El Aaiun and Dakhla, the President of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, indicated in a letter he addressed to the UN’s Secretary General.
A situation that is "getting worst day after day", and show "how urgent it is to invest the MINURSO in the mission to make sure of the respect of the human rights in the Western Sahara and to report all human rights violations to you and to the Security Council", Mr. Abdelaziz underlined asking for the release of all the "Saharawi political prisoners still maintained in prison and to stop the campaign o terror in the territory".
Here is the complete text of the letter, translated from French o English by SPS:
"Bir Lehlu, 27, April 2006
Mister Secretary General,
In a moment when the UN’s Security Council opens discussions about your last report, the situation in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara witnesses a serious deterioration.
First of all, it should be underline that unfortunately and in contradiction to what was declared by the Moroccan authorities, not all the Saharawi political prisoners were released.
13 persons remains under detention in the prisons of El Aaiun and Agadir. He persons still detained are Lahcene Abdallahi, Ahmeda Sidi Elmoussaoui, Ahmada Hammoud Deddi, Naji Bachir, Bouregaa Omar, Benket Cheikh, Eljarchi Ouissi, Tamek Mohamed, Kajout Brahim, Mansouri Idriss, Erkeibi Lejlifa, Hamdi labyadh, Mustafa Lekrimi.
Some of them, such as Ahmada Hammoud Deddi and Ahmed Sidi Elmoussaoui were violently aggressed, last April the 23rd 2006, by members of the forces of order of the prison « Carcel Negra » (Black Jail) of El Aaiun, then jailed, after the confiscation of their belongings, in a special cell for criminals. They are since that date deprived of their families’ visit and of their most fundamental rights as prisoners of opinion.
In El Aaiun too, the participants to a sit-in of protest, organised in April the 25th 2006, to demand that information be revealed on the fate of some Saharawi reported missing, were violently oppressed by the Moroccan forces of police. Mothers of the disappeareds were wounded, while the following persons were arrested: Abdallahi Sidi Mahmoud Boutenguiza, Mohamed Salem Abderrahmane Elheiba, Moulay Elhassan Mohamed Fadel Soueyih, (seriously wounded in his arm), in addition to Mrs. Aziza Moulud Daddi.
In Smara, the same April the 25th, a peaceful demonstration was dispersed by force. The next day, the former political prisoner, Mr. Nafaa Bouchama, was interpellated by the police and the political prisoners, released last Saturday, Alouat Sidi Mohamed, Saghir Mahfoud, Baba Elarabi, El Ansari Mohamed Salem, Daha Tanji, Endour Sidahmed, Salah Erkeibi, Ameidane Cheikh and Ezreiguenat Lahcene were re-arrested and put in prison few time after they were only taking part to a family reception in the house of the ex-political prisoner Mr. Alouat.
To these operations of intimidation and repression, the Moroccan authorities deprived many Saharawi students from their right to study, search houses, shadow and put former political prisoners and human rights activists under surveillance in addition to the exercise of censorship of Internet. This is without mentioning the points of control in the streets, vexations and insults against any person who is suspected of questioning the Moroccan colonial occupation.
Mister Secretary General,
This situation, which is getting worst day after day, demands, more than ever, the reaction of the universal consciousness and all the defenders of the laws an of the people’s rights so a to put an end to this terror and unspeakable sufferings unfairly imposed by Morocco on the defenceless Saharawi populations.
This situation shows, in particular, that it is extremely important, while waiting for the finishing of the decolonisation of the territory, to invest the MINURSO in the mission of the protection of the human rights in the Western Sahara and to report all the human rights violations to you and to the UN’s Security Council.
Thus, I ask you to make use of your authority and that of the Security Council to demand the liberation of all the Saharawi political prisoners still in prison and the end of the ongoing campaign of terror in the territory.
Please receive, Mister Secretary General, the expression of my highest consideration.
Mohamed Abdelaziz,
President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic
Secretary General of POLISARIO Front ". (SPS)
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