Inzegan (south of Morocco) 30/08/2006 (SPS) Saharawi political prisoners declared they will undertake a 48 hours hunger strike starting from Today to protest against the inhumane treatments they are subjected to by the Moroccan penitentiary administration and its agents, indicated a press release they publicised the same day, of which SPS received a copy.

The Saharawi political prisoners in the Moroccan prisons of Inzegan and Ait Melloul (Morocco), demanded to be "gathered apart from the Moroccan criminals" in the prison of Ait Melloul, as well as to have access to medical care and to the right to be visited by their families, the text stressed.

The concerned political prisoners are: Abdallahi Ali Salem Hassan, Mohamed Soueilim Mohamed El Abd Tamek, Oumar Boujemaa Moueilid, Brahim Hassana Mabrek, El Bachir Yahdih Abdallahi Najii, Hamdi Ahmed Fall M'Barek, Driss Moulaye Faraji Al Mansouri, Cheikh El Kori Bouzeid Benka, Brahim Ali Lahcen, Moustapha Ahmed bakrimi, Salama Mouloud Brahim Lahmam, Weissi Mohamed Sidi Kharchi, Khalifa Mohamed Sid'Ahmed and Al Houssein Essahel Sidi Oumar Lefkir.

They finally launched an urgent appeal to all the international and Moroccan human rights’ organisations "to exercise pressures" on the Moroccan Government so as to put an end to the Moroccan human rights violations in the Western Sahara and in the south of Morocco.

On another hand, the Saharawi political prisoners, Laasseri Salek and Amidan Saleh reach now the 30 days in their unlimited hunger strike they are undertaking in the Moroccan prison of Kenitra, faced by the Moroccan penitentiary authorities’ refusal to answer their claims, it should be recalled. (SPS)

020/090/110/TRD 301800 Aug 06 SPS 

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