SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE

SPS
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION

More than 131 Saharawi citizens between wounded and detained in the occupied city of Smara

28.03.06

Smara (occupied territories), 28/03/2006 (SPS) More than 131 Saharawi citizens between wounded and detained in the occupied city of Smara, is the result of aggressions by the different Moroccan corpses of repression against the Saharawi populations during a popular reception to the Saharawi political prisoner, Othmani El-loud Emman, who was released last Sunday with another 29 Saharawi political prisoners.

The helpless Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of Smara were victims to aggressions committed by the Moroccan services of security under the commandment of the Governor of the city, Lemtouni, the SPS’s correspondent on the ground reported.

During the reception, the Saharawi citizens raised the flags of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and chanted slogans in favour of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence. They also called to the release of the 37 Saharawi political prisoners still under detention in the Moroccan prisons.

"The Saharawi citizens spent a night suffering the persecution of their houses and gods". The house of the family of the political prisoner, Othmani El-loud Emman, recently released, was objected to ransacking and all the members of his family were tortured, while he was threatened and his mother to be expulsed to the street", the same source added.

Many wounded persons, who were unable to get medial care in the hospital of the occupied city of Smara, were transferred to the Moroccan military hospital where they had emergency care before been transported to the Criminal police station under the surveillance of the Moroccan torturer, Lemtouni, the Governor of the occupied city of Smara, SPS’s correspondent indicated.

Most of the detainees suffer from serious wounds and are in critical states of health because of the torture they were submitted to during the intervention of the Moroccan forces of repression in the stations of the criminal police, the same source stressed. (SPS)

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Here is the list of the detainees, most of whom are also wounded:

01- Fatma Zahra Brahim Braika

02- Bainan Abdou Ould Bachir

03- Salka Abdou Ould Bachir

04- Naucha Ali Brahim

05- Munnina Sidi Emann

06- Wadnuni Fatma

07- Afif Ali---------------------seriously wounded and transferred to El aiun

08- Naziha Andala Tanji-- wounded, she aborted and was transffered to El Aaiun

09- Afifi Al-lal

10- Laila Moustafa Fal

11- Kaltum Lehsen Aadi

12- Yaquta Lehsen Aadi

13- Thauria Omar Taher

14- Mariam Iyich

15- Tahani Salama Boujemaa

16- Najah Salama Boujemaa

17- Intissar Salama Boujemaa

18- Mahmoud Mohamed Lekhrif

19- Leajeila Hassan Bahiya

20- Munina Said Boj

21- Aminetou Limam Khatri Bouzeid

22- Aghlaila Lehsen Omar

23- Mohamed Fadel Mohamed Salem Hadi

24- Fadli Salama Haimedaha

25- Mlewiha Breika

26- Ahmed Moussaoui

27- Zugham Ghali

28- Zugham Wali

29- Ghlana Mulay Ahmed Mohamed Salem

30- Mohamed Lamin Moulay Ahmed Mohamed Salem

31- Metou Ali Maati

32- Mousaoui Khatri

33- Fatimetou Abeid Moulana

34- Mariyam Abeid Moulana

35- Houriya Abeid Moulana

36- Nteitichy Youssef

37- Nafaa Naucha

38- Saifou Zergui

39- Wali Zaz Bouhali

40- Mouhin Brahim

41- Biyadilah Brahim

42- Amin Nafaa

43- Hayat Hay Moulay Ahmed

44- Haimouda Elbarek

45- Naha Salki

46- Karoum Tekber

47- Salka Bicher

48- Tweikh Bachir Elhssein

49- Tweikh Mohamed Salem Elhoussein

50- Brahim Abdi Bachir

51- Wafa Khalil

52- Daudi Bouzaid

53- Moujahid Sidi Mohamed

54- Cherif Mahjoub Bachir Fadli

55- Salka Elwafi

56- Hleissa Merzug

57- Baiba Ali Maati

58- Ismaili Aziza Khatri Bachir

59- Wahmani Salka

60- Fatimetou Saidi

61- Nadir Mariyam

62- Moukhers Enguia

63- Basir Ragueb

64- Ismaili Mahmoud

65- Laltu Daha

66- Isaili Najah

67- Nainna Saidi

68- Khadijetou Daghch

69- Mteitou Ali

70- Abdelahi Moulay Ahmed Mohamed Salem

71- Soukeina Moulay Ahmed Mohamed Salem

72- Aziz Mohamed Salem

73- Souadou Baiba

74- Tanji Brahim Hamoudi

75- Ghali Essad Bahaha

76- Naucha Ali Latrach

77- Labeidi Hmeim

78- Lebsir Salaha

79- Elkhalil Zreibia

80- Mokhtar Ahmedou Kowri

81- Maelainin Mokhtar

82- GHhali Salama Jameaa

83- Mohamed Lamin Ali Latrach

84- Sid Brahim Lebsir

85- Mohamed Salem Mohamed Yeslem

86- Bachir Mohamed Lamin Sid Elarbi

87- Ghali Ali Elwali

88- Othman Aliyat Latrach

89- Cheikh Dadah Boumrah

90- Souadou Mohamed Ali

91- Habal Banahi Daha

92- Aziza Kharti Bachir

93- Mariyam Mohamed Hmednah

94- Faka Mohamed Lebdadi

95- Khadijetou Mohamed Elabd

96- Laila Mouustafa Fal

97- Mariyam Bachir Abeid

98- Aminetu Bachir Abeid

99- Salouka Sidahmed Meilas

100- Zaiara Mohamed

101- Tarba Omar Taher

102- Aziza Salami Hamdi

103- Soukeina Moulay Ahmed Hamdi

104- Foitma Mneisir

105- Nema Taher Lansar

106- Teslem Tanji

107- Taufa Abeiri

108- Fatma Najim

109- Foitma Iyich

110- Azeiza Iyich

111- Hafed Bahiya

112- Tenwaka Daoudi

113- Alumri Mohamed

114- Mankur Hamadi

115- Balah Mohamed Yeslem

116- Mohamed Salem Mohamed Yeslem

117- Albahan Labgeidi

118- Makaui Abdelhadi

119- Achheb

120- Zaidan Amayer

121- Fali Mohamed

122- Nafaa Othman

123- Alhamdi Amin

124- Almukhtar Lehmami

125- Barakat Aahdi

126- Oumessaad Mahmoud Karoum

127- Fadli Karum

128- Erragueb Mustapha Brahim

129- Mina Said Baba

130- Maugaf Said Baba

131- Zuena Marhba

132- mnina mhamed

List of families whose houses were ransacked by police:

01- Famille de Othman El-Lud

02- Famille de Moulay Ahmed Ould Mohamed Salem

03- Famile de Fadli Ould Karoum

04- Famille de Ahmed Ould Mohamed Salem Ould Hamma

05- Famille de Boulah Said Baiba

06- Famille de Dahmi Abeid Moulana

07- Famille de Labbat Moussa

08- Famille de Mohamed Hmednah

09- Famille de Bachir Abeid

10- Garage du citoyen Houssein Lehbib Mneisir

SPS
SADR/MOROCCO/EUROPEAN UNION

Polisario Front asks for a European Union’s intervention for the respect of the international legality in the Western Sahara

Chahid El Hafed, 28/03/2006 (SPS) Polisario Front’s National Secretariat’s Member Delegated to Europe, Mohamed Sidati, called on the leaders of the European Union, on Monday, to intervene for the respect of the international legality in the Western Sahara and to support the UN’s efforts for the implementation of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination.

Mr. Sidati also asked all the members of the EU to "make use of all their influence to compel the Moroccan king comply with the UN’s resolutions", Sidati wrote in a statement publicised on Monday, of which SPS received a copy.

He further "insistently" asked the leaders of the EU to reject the fishing accords with Morocco. Sidati added that "as long as such an accord is including the territorial waters of the Western Sahara, it can but be interpreted as a support to an international operation of robbery".

Concerning the visit recently undertaken by the King of Morocco, Mohamed VI, to the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, Mr. Sidati indicated that it is a rushing ahead of he Moroccan authorities who are going against the stream of history.

This visit is "an additional provocation to be registered in the records of the Moroccan occupier, and sounds like defiance to the international community", which supports, however, the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, Sidati added.

This visit, which was programmed few times before the meting of the UN’s Security Council on the Saharawi question, said he, is "a dangerous politic and medias manoeuvre aimed to lead the public opinion and to the international bodies to believe that the Saharawi populations are supporting the occupying force and its thesis".

The preparation by the Moroccan authorities of this incredible masquerade caused a wide and fierce repression, under absolute secrecy, against the Saharawi populations by the Moroccan forces of occupation, which were dispatched in big numbers to El Aaiun, to stop Saharawis from demonstrating against the visit of the Moroccan king, the Saharawi diplomat said.

On another hand, hundreds Moroccan subjects, wearing Saharawi traditional clothes were transported in busses from Morocco to El Aaiun to demonstrate their enthusiasm before their Monarch in front of the cameras of the Moroccan television, Mr. Sidati stressed.

This incursion in the Saharawi territories was an occasion for the Moroccan king to test the international bodies by proposing his solution, a specious project of autonomy.

"The Saharawi people reject, in the form and in the basis, this new diversion which has for unique goal to prolong the colonisation of the Saharawi territories, subdue its people and plunder its wealth", he affirmed.

Morocco can not decide on behalf of the Saharawi people. The verdict of the International Court of Justice, issued in 1975, already ruled on the pointlessness of the Moroccan claims of sovereignty over the territories of the Western Sahara, the Saharawi diplomat recalled.

The UN’s Security Council’s resolution 1495 clearly stipulates, on its part, the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination. It is well known that the question of the Western Sahara is not a Moroccan internal problem, it is a in fact decolonisation question, the Saharawi diplomat stressed, who specified that the Western Sahara remains thus the last country in the world, or at least in Africa, to suffer colonisation. (SPS)

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SPS
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/MOROCCO/HUMAN RIGHTS

A wave of arrests and human rights violations in the Western Sahara, according to a Saharawi association

Rabat, 28/03/2006 (SPS) A wave of repression, arrests and oppression of Saharawi activists was reported in many occupied cities of the Western Sahara, which are put under an impressive siege by the Moroccan military forces, indicated on Monday a Saharawi human rights association, quoted by Algerian Press Agency, APS.

According to a pres release by the Saharawi Association of the Victims of Flagrant Human Rights Violations, APS’s bureau in Rabat received, the occupied cities of the Western Sahara, especially El Aaiun, Boujdour and Smara were "completely put under a state of emergencies, forbiddance of movement since midnights, in addition to massive arrest of Saharawi activists during and after the visit of the Moroccan king".

The Association, which denounced this visit, reported that many Saharawi human rights activists, including the vice-President of the Association, Mrs. Idjimi Ghalia and her husband, as well as the President of the Saharawi section of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) Hamoud Iguilid, were arrested and tortured.

On another hand, and "contrarily to what was declared (by the forces of occupation) concerning the release of the Saharawi political prisoners, the number of arrests of Saharawi activists increased dangerously during these last days, accompanied by the same practices of torture, terror and intimidation committed by the Moroccan services of security against the Saharawis", the Association stressed.

The Saharawi NGO also denounced "the permanent oppression" by the Moroccan forces of security of the Saharawi population, and in particular the Saharawi human rights defenders in the Western Sahara.

It also called to the immediate release of all the Saharawi political prisoners and human rights activists still incarcerated in the different Moroccan prisons (in the occupied city of El Aaiun, in Agadir and Marrakech). It also called on the Moroccan authorities of occupation to account for 15 Saharawi activists reported lately missing.

The Association, finally, launched and appeal to the international public opinion "to put additional pressures on the Moroccan State so as to stop its oppression against the Saharawis and to lift the security siege (military and police) in the Western Sahara". (SPS)

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SPS
SADR/UN/MOROCCO/OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/HUMAN RIGHTS

Over 130 Saharawis arrested in the occupied city of Smara, Mr. Abdelaziz interpellates Annan

Chahid El Hafed, 28/03/2006 (SPS) The last events of the occupied city of Smara (Western Sahara), which resulted in more than 130 Saharawi citizens arrested by the Moroccan colonial forces, led the Saharawi President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, to interpellate the UN to intervene in emergency so as to "protect" this citizens, especially that the territory is under the UN’s jurisdiction since it is present on the ground for the last 15 years so far.

"We renew our insistence on the UN to assume its full responsibilities in the protection of the helpless Saharawi citizens, to guarantee their rights and their fundamental freedoms", Mr. Abdelaziz wrote in a letter he sent to the UN’s Secretary General, Kofi Annan, after the Moroccan colonial forces violent interventions that led to the wounding and arrest of more than 130 Saharawis, who have participated to the reception on Sunday night in Smara of a Saharawi political prisoner freshly released from the Carcel negra (Black jail) of the occupied city of El Aaiun.

The letter, of which SPS received a copy, underlines that the "the city was the theatre to a wild intervention by the Moroccan colonial forces of security against a group of helpless citizens, including children, women, old persons and youngsters".

"The Moroccan forces of repression took profit of the darkness of the night and the absence of independent Medias to break into the house of the family of the political prisoner, Othmani El-loud Emman, who were celebrating, with the participation of some peaceful Saharawi citizens, the release of the youngman", the text said.

"First information reports the abduction and arrest of more than 130 persons (see annexed lists), who were exposed to all kinds of torture that caused many of them serious injuries, to be transferred to the occupied Saharawi capital, El Aaiun", the letter stressed, adding that the Capital had had its "own part of the fierce repression that preceded, accompanied and followed the colonial visit of the king of Morocco to the occupied territories of the Western Sahara".

The President of the Republic underlined that "Othmani El-loud Emman Ethmani and his mother were arrested that same night to be tortured and abandoned the next morning in a street".

"The Moroccan Government persist thus in its repressive colonial policy. In this respect comes the visit of the Moroccan king to our country, the flagrant abuses against the Saharawi people’s rights since the illegal military occupation of the Western Sahara in the 31^st of October 1975; and of which the events of Smara are a good illustration".

Mr. Abdelaziz considered, finally, that the UN "can not stay arms folded in front of these human rights violations and denial of the international legality", taking into consideration that the UN "is the responsible of the territory and is present in the latter through its mission, MINURSO". (SPS)

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