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SPS Three Saharawi human rights activists appear before the Moroccan colonial court in El Aaiun 27.06.05
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 27/06/2006 (SPS) Three Saharawi human rights activists, including the Secretary General of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Human Rights Violations Committed by Morocco (ASVVGDHEM), Brahim Sabbar, were brought before the Moroccan colonial court in the occupied capital of the Western Sahara, El Aaiun, concordant sources indicated.
The defence of the Saharawi human rights activists, Brahim Sabbar, Haddi Ahmed Mahmoud, alias: Elkainan and his brother Haddi Salah, asked for a postponement of the trial of their clients so as to enable their families to attend their trials, it was indicated.
But, due to the rejection by the persecutor and of the court to favourably answer the demand of the lawyers, the defence decided to abandon the court room, the same source added, though the Moroccan colonial court finally reported the trial of the here activists for this Tuesday.
The three Saharawi human rights activists in addition to the ex-political prisoner, Sbai Ahmed, were arrested and ill-treated since about tend days by the Moroccan forces of repression, upon their return from the occupied city of Bojador where they supervised the foundation of a new section of the ASVVGDHEM, it should be recalled.
On another hand, the occupied city of El Aaiun was the theatre, on Sunday evening, to a wide operation of raising and fixing Saharawi flags in yhe different neighbourhood of the occupied city, as well as a big demonstration claiming for "the immediate withdrawal" of the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara, according to eyewitnesses.
The Moroccan forces of repression proceeded to a wide deployment of its agents in the streets of the occupied Capital of the Western Sahara. They also arrested a young Saharawi citizen, Abeih El Haj, in his family house and was led to one of the Moroccan centres of torture in the occupied city of El Aaiun. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 271110 June 06 SPS
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SPS A Saharawi political prisoner suffering a "critical state" in a hospital in Agadir
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Agadir (south of Morocco), 27/06/2006 (SPS) Medical sources from the hospital "Hassan II" in Agadir affirmed that the state of the health of the Saharawi political prisoner, Lehmam Salama Brahim Mouloud, is "critical", estimating that he may need a chirurgical intervention this Tuesday.
They also underlined that the state of health of the young Saharawi "remains extremely dangerous" because of a dangerous haemorrhage.
The doctors expressed "concern" about the state of the youngster, who may lead to the failure of the chirurgical intervention, to a paralysis at the level of the neck and may cause the victim to be blind, the same sources stressed.
The Saharawi political prisoner, Lehmam Salama Brahim Mouloud, who is detained in the prison in the Moroccan city of Inzegan, was recently stabbed at the neck by a Moroccan prisoner under the orders of an employee of the prison called Abdellatif, it should be recalled.
On another hand, the Saharawi flag was raised on Sunday evening in the Moroccan city of Goulimine and rac asking for the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence were distributed in the same southern Moroccan city. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 271150 June 06 SPS
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SPS Algeria has a clear position regarding the conflict of the Western Sahara (Annan)
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Geneva, 27/06/2006 (SPS) The United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan, declared in Geneva that "Algeria has a clear position" regarding the conflict of the Western Sahara.
"Algeria has a clear position, saying that it is not a party to the war, it is not a party to the conflict, it is a neighbouring country and it is ready to help and discuss (...)", Mr. Annan said during a press conference organised on the occasion of the inaugurating session of the UN Human Rights Council.
The UN SG indicated that "we must accept that Algeria is a neighbouring country and that we must not try to implicate it in this affair", stressing that the dossier of the Western Sahara is closely studied by the UN.
On another hand, Mr. Annan declared his "concern" about the humanitarian situation of the Saharawi refugees, hoping that the UN supervised families visits exchange "can be restarted".
He also stressed hat his Representative Mr. Van Walsum will visit the region "when it will be necessary", stressing that the UN Security Council is "seized" by the question, hoping "to be able to push the concerned parties to make progresses" in the process of the settlement of the conflict". (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 271501 June 06 SPS
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SPS Ilal Amam and Ennahdj Eddimocrati reiterate their support to the self-determination of the Saharawi people
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Brussels, 27/06/2006 (SPS) The Moroccan progressive political movement Ilal Amam (Advance) and the Moroccan political party Ennahdj Eddimocrati (the Democratic Path) reiterated on Sunday evening in Brussels their support to the self-determination of the Saharawi people under the auspices of the UN, during a conference-debate organised by the Arab Progressive Youth Union (UJPA) of Belgium, reported the correspondent of the Algerian Press Service, APS.
For the first time since the occupation of the Western Sahara by Morocco in 1975, this conference reunited the Polisario Front’s Representative to Europe, Mr. Mohamed Sidati, and Representative of the Ilal Amam movement as well asa representative of the Ennahdj Eddimocrati, respectively Mr. Menebhi Abdelaziz and Mr. Aziz Mkichri.
The position of the leftist party, Ennahdj Eddimocrati, joins the position of the UN in supporting the Saharawi people’s right to freely elect their future through a self-determination referendum, Mr. Mkichri underlined during the conference that took place in a warm and friendly climate.
To Mr. Menebhi, "the struggle of the Saharawi and Moroccan peoples is a common struggle. It is a struggle against the Moroccan regime that continues to oppress". A regime that is, he further said, "an obstacle to the edification of a Maghreb of the peoples, including the people of the Saharawi Republic".
The representatives of the two Moroccan political organisations reaffirmed their recognition of the Saharawi people and their right to self-determination referendum under the aegis of the UN, opposing thus the pretended claim of the unanimity within the Moroccan political groups on the Moroccan thesis in the Western Sahara.
Mr. Menebhi, co-founder of Ilal Amam and ex-political prisoner in Morocco (from 1975 to 1995), recalled that the history of his movement has intimate ties with the Saharawi people’s struggle for independence against the Spanish colonialism and after that «against the expansionism» of the Moroccan Monarchy.
Mr. Menebhi recalled the audience that the Moroccan National Union of Students (UNEM), which he chaired in the beginning of the 70ies, has adopted a resolution calling for the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, even before the creation of the Polisario Front.
The 15th congress of the UNEM (12 to 18 August 1972) has in fact adopted this resolution of "recognition and support", he remembered, "the same day when General Oufkir attempted the second coup d’Etat against King Hassan II".
The creation of the Polisario Front, the Moroccan militant testifies, corresponded to "a maturity of the old struggle of the Saharawi people", adding that the beginning of the 70ies were the key of the struggle of the Saharawi people, as May the 8th is for Algerians.
In 1970, the Spanish colonial authorities repressed the Saharawi population in blood, while the latter was demonstrating in the historical neighbourhood of Zemla in the occupied city of El Aaiun, the capital of the Western Sahara.
Those who survived this "massacre", the elite of "the local oppressed population", the Saharawi intellectuals, including those who militated within the UNEM, reached the conviction that the peaceful struggle against the Spanish occupation with the "complicity" of the Alaouit throne, has reached its limits, he recalled.
Polisario Front’s representative, who related in his intervention the genesis of the Saharawi people’s struggle for their independence, underlined that this struggle "entered a new phase today, with the broke out of the popular uprising (intifada) led by the youth of the third generation, who are more radical than their elders, despite 30 years of oppression, marginalisation and attempts of assimilation".
Thus, he said answering some questions, the idea of "a third way", of "a wide autonomy", about which Morocco "fails even to convince its European allies but also the UN", is "old fashioned" and completely rejected by the Polisario Front and the Saharawi people.
"The Moroccan regime, surprised by this Intifada, is trying by this side-stepping to distort the decolonisation process in the Western Sahara, face the Intifada, which is mobilising the two thirds of the Moroccan repressive machine", Mr. Sidati explained . (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 271509 June 06 SPS
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SPS Amnesty International interpellates the Moroccan Government on torture in Morocco
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Rabat, 27/06/2006 (SPS) Amnesty International called on Rabat, on Monday, ''to end torture in the centres of torture'' in Morocco, and asked the Moroccan Government to allow NGOs to visit the detention centres.
The Moroccan section of Amnesty International underlined, in a press conference on the occasion of the UN Day against torture, to have seized the Head of the Moroccan Government ''to sign the facultative accord for the convention against torture'', which enables the NGOs to visit the centres of detention.
On their side, Moroccan human rights organisations estimate that the practice of torture in Morocco ''reached alarming proportions during the last months''.
The Moroccan Association for human rights (AMDH) gave example with many cases of torture and death of civilians during the last months in police stations and in gendarmerie headquarters.
''Many persons died under torture during the last months, especially Hamdi Lembarki in El Aaiun (Western Sahara), Larbi Souabni in Mohammadia, Adil Zayati and Abdelghafour Haddad in Salé (near Rabat)'', this NGO affirms. (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 271457 June 06 SPS
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SPS two to three years imprisonment sentences against three Saharawi human rights activists
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 27/06/2006 (SPS) The Moroccan colonial court in El Aaiun condemned, on Tuesday, three Saharawi human rights activists to heavy sentences, between two years to three years imprisonment, concordant sources indicated.
The SG of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVGDHCEM), Brahim Sabbar, was sentenced two years imprisonment, while the Saharawi ex-political prisoner, Heddi Mohamed Mahmoud El Kainan, was sentenced to three years and his brother sentenced two years suspended sentence.
The three activists entered the court room wearing Saharawi traditional clothes and saluted the audience with the sign of victory, the same sources added.
They also reaffirmed that the charges pronounced against them are "unfounded", estimating that they were arrested because of their activities in the defence of human rights in the Western Sahara and because of their opinions in favour of the self-determination and independence of the Saharawi people.
At the end of the trial, the three Saharawi activists were led by the Moroccan repressive forces to the Carcel Negra in El Aaiun.
The families of the three activists, supported by many citizens organised a demonstration in front of the Moroccan colonial court in El Aaiun, asking for the "unconditional release" of their sons.
The three Saharawi human rights activists in addition to the ex-political prisoner, Sbai Ahmed, were arrested and ill-treated since about tend days by the Moroccan forces of repression, upon their return from the occupied city of Bojador where they supervised the foundation of a new section of the ASVVGDHEM, it should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 271830 June 06 SPS
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