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SPS AFAPREDESA: concerned about the situation of the Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan jails 31.01.06
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Chahid El Hafed, 31/01/2006 (SPS) The Association of the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and Disappeareds (AFAPREDESA), expressed deep concern about the "serious and preoccupying situation" of the Saharawi political prisoners in the Moroccan prisons, where torture and ill-treatment are widely committed, the Association indicated in a press release it publicised on Monday.
AFAPREDESA also denounced the policy of the "judicial solution", which is deliberately adopted by the Moroccan authorities against Saharawi activists, in an attempt to "stop the Saharawis, who are struggling for their rights", the press release underlined.
The Sahara NGO launched an "urgent" appeal to Governments and human rights organisations, asking them to intervene vis-à-vis the Moroccan authorities of occupation so as to compel them put an end to their policies of repression, human rights violations, including the inalienable right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence.
It should be underlined that 54 Saharawi political prisoners, including 9 Saharawi human rights activists, incarcerated in Moroccan jails, had decided to start, Today, a 48 hours hunger strike in protest against the violations against their rights as political prisoners by Moroccan penitentiary authorities. (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 311120 Jan 06 SPS
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SPS The Saharawi community in Paris asks for an "urgent intervention" from France to end the Moroccan oppression in Western Sahara
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Paris, 31/01/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi community in France asked, on Monday, for "an urgent intervention" from the French Government, vis-à-vis Rabat, so as to end Moroccan "crimes" in Western Sahara, calling on the UN and its Security Council to enable the Saharawi people exercise their right to self-determination via a just and transparent self-determination referendum, basically planed for 1991.
"We reaffirm our unconditional support to the Saharawi popular uprising" and "we call the Saharawi communities wherever they are to back the Saharawi peaceful struggle for freedom and independence", the press release of the Saharawi community in France, publicised on Monday, stressed.
"We remain attached to our people’s right to self-determination, conforming to the international legality, rejecting the autonomy presented by the Moroccan kingdom that aims at denying Rabat’s engagements with the international community", the press release added.
The Saharawi community in France, basically composed of workers, students, refugees and immigrants, expressed its happiness with the release of the Saharawi emblematic human rights activist, Aminatou Haidar. The community "denounces the scandalous judgements of the Saharawi political prisoners", the same source indicated.
The text also called on the European Union and African Union, as well as all democratic forces to exercise "pressures on the Moroccan Government so as to compel it respect the human rights and the international legality in Western Sahara".
It further condemned "the serious violation of the human rights, perpetrated by the Moroccan State in the occupied territories of Western Sahara", calling for "the bringing before court of the persons accountable for these crimes".
The Saharawi community in France, finally, launched an appeal to all the organisations of students and youth, in Europe and worldwide, "to draw the light on the sufferings of the Saharawi students in the Moroccan universities, who are submitted to all kinds of racism and humiliation from the administrations of the universities campus as well as from the part of the Moroccan forces of security". (SPS)
020/090/000 311300 Jan 06 SPS
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SPS Big demonstrations in the occupied city of Smara
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Smara (cultural capital of Western Sahara), 31/01/2006 (SPS) The occupied city of Smara was the theatre Sunday to a big Saharawi demonstration asking for the enabling of Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination and rejecting the autonomy presented by the Moroccan Government, reported the correspondent of SPS.
The demonstrators raised the flags of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and chanted slogans in favour of the Saharawi people right to self-determination and independence, the same source stressed.
They marched through the streets of the occupied cultural capital of the Saharawi Republic before they were violently dispersed by the Moroccan forces of repression, which undertook a wide campaign of search and investigations in neighbourhoods inhabited by majorities of Saharawis, the correspondent said.
On another hand the examining magistrate of the colonial court in the occupied city of El Aaiun newly ordered the transfer of the Saharawi prisoner, Ismaili Mohamed M'Barek, to the Carcel negra of El Aaiun without giving a specific date for his judgement, the same source indicated.
Mr. Ismaili Mohamed M'Barek, was arrested after he participated in a demonstration and openly called for the self-determination and independence, rejecting the Moroccan illegal occupation of Western Sahara. (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 311415 Jan 06 SPS
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SPS A Saharawi citizen suspends his hunger strike
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 31/01/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi citizen, Elhaiba Mohamed Mahmoud, suspended on Saturday a previously declared hunger strike he started last January the 24th 2006 after the Moroccan colonial authorities answered his claims and sent him back to his initial place of work in El Aaiun, reported concordant sources.
Two Saharawis, Elhaiba Mohamed Mahmoud and Yahia Mohamed Elhafed started an unlimited hunger strike last Tuesday to protest against an abusive transfer from the El Aaiun (Western Sahara) to Agadir (Morocco), they were subjected to by the direction of the Moroccan military forces.
The two Saharawi citizens, who work in the Moroccan army, were arrested in El Aaiun last January the 17th, in the same day of the release of the Saharawi human rights activist, Aminatou Haidar, the same source indicated. (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 311500 Jan 06 SPS
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