El Aaiun (occupied territories), 27/08/2006 (SPS) The Moroccan colonial authorities in the occupied capital of the Saharawi Republic, El Aaiun, deprived the two kids of the Saharawi human rights activist, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, from the right to get passports, according to sources close to the family of the children.

Hayat and Mohamed Kassimi, the children of the activist, had before presented to the Moroccan colonial administration the needed procedures to get their passports, the same source said.

The procedure was rejected by the Moroccan colonial authorities in El Aaiun, who affirmed they had received "orders from the highest royal body" according to which "these two innocent kids were to be deprived from their right to get a passport".

This unjustified action from the colonial authorities is a repressive action against the Saharawi activist, Aminatou Haidar, because of her activities as a human rights defender in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, the same source added.

Mr. Aminatou Haidar had recently undertaken a turn in Europe and in South Africa, aimed to "unveil the barbarous and serious human rights violations committed by the Moroccan State against the Saharawi political prisoners, especially the human rights activists in these territories" since the start of the Intifada of independence last May 2005. (SPS)

020/090/110/TRD 271200 Aug 06 SPS

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