SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE

SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

El Aaiun (occupied territories), 29/08/2006 (SPS) Three youngsters a least were arrested by the Moroccan forces of repression in the 'Nil' campus, which is situated in the El Aaiun Beach within the framework of a wide campaign of arrests and terror it is leading against the Saharawi youth in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, trustworthy sources indicated to SPS.

The young Saharawis: Zekabi Moustapha, Laghatt Abderrahmane an Karzaz Bachir were arrested on Sunday by the colonial Moroccan Royal gendarme, which "threatened them by sexual harassment and savagely tortured them", the same sources indicated.

The Moroccan forces of repression redoubled their presence in this campus, so as to stop "possible" demonstration the young Saharawis were to organise, the same sources added.

On another hand, eyewitnesses in the occupied capital of the Saharawi Republic, El Aaiun, saw the famous Moroccan torturer Ichi Abou Al Hassan circulating in the streets, with Moroccan agents of security disguised in civil clothes, looking for young Saharawis, who are supposedly "the instigators" of peaceful demonstrations advocating the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence. (SPS)

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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION

A Saharawi political prisoner asks for the respect of human rights in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara

El Aaiun (occupied territories), 29/08/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi ex-political prisoner, Bouamoud Mohamed Salem, launched "an urgent" plea to the international human rights organisations on Tuesday asking them "to exercise pressures" on the Moroccan Government so as to "compel it respect the human rights in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara and in the south of Morocco".

Mr. Bouamoud Mohamed Salem also asked for the opening of an investigation about the torture and human rights abuses he was subject to and to the bringing of the persons accountable before court, he stressed in a press release he publicised the same day, of which SPS received a copy.

He further asked the international community to the “prompt” holding of a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people, the referendum been "the democratic way that can lighten the sufferings of this people", urging the UN to enlarge the mandate and prerogative of its mission in the territory, the MINURSO, so as to include the protection of the Saharawi civilians from the Moroccan repression.

The Saharawi ex-political prisoner also expressed his solidarity with the Saharawi political prisoners who are still in Moroccan custody in the notorious Carcel Negra (in El Aaiun), but also in the prisons of Inzegan, Ait Melloul, Tiznit, Kenitra and Marrakech (Moroccan cities), including those of them ho are undertaking hunger strikes.

Mr. Bouamoud Mohamed Salem finally announced his attachment to the inalienable right o the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence. (SPS)

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Algiers, 29/08/2006 (SPS) The Algerian national committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS) will organise, on the occasion of the holly month of the Ramadan (Muslims’ month of the fasting), a humanitarian caravan of solidarity with the Saharawi people under the slogan "humanitarian caravan of resistance".

In this respect, the Algerian National Committee of the moudjahidine (ONM), which is a member of the CNASPS, called, in a press release, "the entire Algerian people to support this caravan that coincide this month with the wholly month of Ramadan."

"This initiative was decided, on Sunday in Algiers, during a meeting with the presence of the Secretary General of the CNASPS", Mr. Mohamed Mehriz Al Amari stressed in a press release, the Algerian Press Service said, APS.

The members of the CNASPS denounced "the Moroccan police manoeuvres, and of their allies to impose its colonialist policy and to elude the international legality and the UN’s Security Council consecrating the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination".

In addition to the ONM, the CNASPS also includes the children of Chouhadas (martyrs) and the Algerian Muslims Scouts, it should be recalled. (SPS)

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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION

A Saharawi political prisoner in coma deprived from medical assistance in the prison of Ait Melloul

El Aaiun (occupied territories), 29/08/2006 (SPS) The Moroccan penitentiary authorities in the Moroccan prison of Ait Melloul did not permit medical assistance to the Saharawi political prisoner, Loumadi Saaid, who lost consciousness because of the hunger strike he started since three weeks a well as because of the "the ill-treatments and inhumane conditions of detention" he is suffering from, reported trustworthy sources.

Loumadi Saaid, who is in a critical state, is unable to speak or move, and is still maintained in custody in his cell with Moroccan criminals in the prison of Ait Melloul, after having been deprived by the Moroccan penitentiary authorities of this prison from been transported to hospital.

On another hand, the Saharawi political prisoner, Mohamed Bouanan, was transferred to a hospital to receive medical care as a consequence to the hunger strike he is undertaking since a month with two others political prisoners in the Moroccan prison of Tiznit (South of Morocco), the same sources indicated.

The three Saharawi political prisoners: Mahmoud M'Barek Abou El Ghassem, Mohamed Bouanan and Abdeljalil Moujahid, imprisoned in the Moroccan prison of Tiznit asked the Moroccan colonial authorities to "reconsider the iniquitous sentence" against them and to ameliorate their conditions of imprisonment, it should be recalled. (SPS)

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