Occupied El Aaiun, June 29, 2026 (SPS) – The League for the Protection of Sahrawi Prisoners in Moroccan Prisons has received information from the families of Sahrawi political prisoners confirming that the Sahrawi civilian prisoners belonging to the Gdeim Izik Group, jailed in various Moroccan prisons, will begin a 48-hour warning hunger strike on Tuesday.
The warning hunger strike constitutes a protest action in solidarity with their fellow Sahrawi civilian prisoner, Naâma Abdi Moussa Asfari, who has been on an open-ended hunger strike at Kenitra Central Prison since June 8 (21 days), in protest against his conditions of detention and the continued violations suffered by Sahrawi prisoners in Moroccan prisons.
The prisoners based their action on the March 2023 opinion of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which called for an end to their detention, as well as on the recommendations of the United Nations Committee against Torture. They reiterated their commitment to their right to live in dignity and rejected what they described as inhuman treatment inside Moroccan prisons.
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