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SPS The President of the Republic urges Annan to stop repression in the Western Sahara 31.05.05
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Bir Lehlu (liberated territories), 31/05/2006 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, called on the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to intervene vis-à-vis Morocco to stop the repression in the Western Sahara after atrocious torture inflicted t Saharawi citizen, Mr. Saiidi Salek, burned by Moroccan police with Benzene, last May the 28 in police station in El Aaiun, the occupied capital of the Non-Self-Governing territory, Western Sahara.
"We renew the call to you to exercise urgent pressures on the Moroccan Government in order to put an end to its dangerous repressive practices an release all Saharawi political prisoners", the Head of the State underlined in a letter to Mr. Annan, of which SPS received a copy.
"These horrible practices recall us of the atrocities perpetrated by the Moroccan colonial authorities during their invasion of the Western Sahara, on October the 31 1975, when it was throwing Saharawis from helicopters, burying them alive in collective graves or bombarding them with napalm and white phosphor", he said.
He further asked for the creation of, "UN mechanisms that can guarantee the security and fundamental freedoms of the Saharawi citizens in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara until the organisation of a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people".
In addition to the case of Mr. Salek, the Head of the Saharawi State also mentioned the case of Mr. Mohamed Boutebaa, who is in the hospital of specialities in El Aaiun since May the 17 because of serious wounds inflicted to him by the Moroccan police.
"Mr. Boutebaa was expulsed from the hospital Hassan Ben Mehdi before he got the needed medical care", President Abdelaziz wrote.
Finally, the Mr. Adelaziz deplored that this repressive practices "intervenes a week after the visit of the delegation of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, while we were expecting that the Moroccan authorities of occupation would stop their repression against the Saharawi civilians". (SPS)
010/090/100/TRD 311029 May 06 SPS
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SPS The EU for a settlement of the Saharawi question within the framework of the UN
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Algiers, 31/05/2006 (SPS) The European Union (EU) is in favour of a settlement of the Saharawi question within the framework of the UN, declared, on Wednesday in Algiers, the General Director of the EU External Relations, Mr. Eneko Landaburu, the Algerian Press Service, APS, indicated.
"It is necessary to find a solution within the framework of the UN", the EU representative said answering a question on "the absence of a clear position" from the EU towards the question.
He deplored that "50 years after its creation, there is not yet a common foreign policy within the EU".
Concerning the Western Sahara, "the Scandinavian countries support the Saharawi cause in the contrary to other European States", he did not wanted to name. (SPS)
010/090/700/RD 311439 May 06 SPS
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SPS Eight persons arrested and three houses ransacked in the occupied city of El Aaiun
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 31/05/2006 (SPS) Eight Saharawi citizens were arrested by the Moroccan forces of occupation, during the demonstrations that took place on Monday evening to early Tuesday in the occupied city of El Aaiun, to advocate the "immediate withdrawal" of the Moroccan occupier from the Western Sahara, concordant sources indicated.
The demonstrators raised the flags of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and distributed tracts advocating Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, the same sources added.
The Moroccan forces of repression « cruelly » intervened to disperse the demonstrators and arrested the Saharawi citizens: Laroussi Moustapha and his wife Mrs. Azza Sleiman Othmane, in addition to Choumad Laroussi Moustapha, Bachir Sleiman Othmane, Abdelghani Kebdana, Jemal Housseini, and two ex-political prisoners: Haddad Mahmoud and Allouatt Sidi Mohamed.
The Moroccan authorities also ransacked three Saharawi houses, "destroying" the goods of their owners, the same source underlined.
The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, called on the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to intervene vis-à-vis Morocco to stop the repression in the Western Sahara after atrocious torture inflicted t Saharawi citizen, Mr. Saiidi Salek, burned by Moroccan police with Benzene, last May the 28 in police station in El Aaiun, the occupied capital of the Non-Self-Governing territory, Western Sahara, it should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 311330 May 06 SPS
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SPS Saharawi political prisoners in Inzegan will start a hunger strike for this Thursday
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Inzegan (South of Morocco), 31/05/2006 (SPS) Saharawi political prisoners in the Moroccan prison of Inzegan declared they ill start a 48 hunger strike starting from this Thursday, as a warning, to denounce the inhumane conditions of detention they are suffering from and to protest against the harassment they are daily subjected to by the Moroccan colonial authorities.
Six of eleven Saharawi political prisoners in the prison of Inzegan, were imprisoned with minor criminals in separated buildings of the prison where the number of the detainees is very high, to the degree that the "mentioned Saharawi political prisoners” can not find places where to sleep, the prisoners stressed in a press release they publicised on Wednesday, of which SPS received a copy.
This group of political prisoners, who suffer from many skin diseases, are "deprived from the right to medical care by the Moroccan penitentiary authorities", the same source added.
The press release also deplored that this political prisoners are still maintained in custody for the second consecutive month “without judgment".
The mentioned prisoners are: Najiaa Lebchir, EL Khorchi Weissi, Banga Cheikh, Bourgaa Omar, Labyad Hamdi, AL Mansouri Driss, Tamek Mohamed, Kjout Brahim, Bakrimi Mustapha, Lehmam Salama and Lefkir Lahassan.
On another hand, the Saharawi Committee of Human Rights Defenders (CDSDH), based in El Aaiun, called on all international bodies to "intervene in emergency", and exercise "pressures" on the Moroccan Government to compel it respect the Human rights in the Western Sahara.
CDSDH also reaffirmed that the Saharawi political prisoners in the Carcel Negra (Black Jail) are still suffering "very bad conditions of detention". They denounced "the force deportation" of a group of this prisoners from the prison of El Aaiun to another Moroccan prison. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 311240 May 06 SPS
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SPS Aminatou Haidar will meet with European Parliament’s President on Wednesday
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Brussels, 30/05/ 2006 (SPS) Saharawi human rights activist and ex-political prisoner, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, will be received today by the President of the European Parliament, Mr. Josep Borell, Algerian Press Service, APS, quoted referring to Polisario Front’s Representation in Brussels.
Mrs. Haidar, who is sojourning in Brussels within the framework of a campaign she is undertaking to raise the awareness of the European personalities on the situation that prevails in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, especially with regard to the violations committed against the Saharawi civil population, had also met with many European Parliamentarians and almost all the responsible of the European Parliament political groups.
The Saharawi human rights activist will also meet with the European Parliament’s Ad-hoc mission to the Western Sahara, the Members of the Commission of development and that of human rights of the European body.
A Press conference and a reception offered by the President of the European Parliament’s intergroup "Peace for the Saharawi people", Mrs. Kareen Scheele, are planed for Thursday.
Mrs. Haidar had undertaken an European turn that led her to Spain, Sweden, France and Brussels.
Mrs Aminatou Haidar, a famous human right activist well known in Europe, was tortured and put in secret detention by the Moroccan colonial forces for having advocated the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination.
This militant had always been victim to abduction and forced disappearance in 1987 while she was 20 years old, and was confined for four years "in the horror of the Moroccan secret prisons", it should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/700/TRD 311755 May 06 SPS
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