Shaheed El Hafed, July 13, 2026 (SPS) – The Political and Administrative Unit in Shaheed El Hafed Boujomaa has expressed its unwavering and unconditional solidarity with Sahrawi civilian prisoner Naâma Asfari, Vice President of the Sahrawi Committee for the Protection of Human Rights (CORELSO), who has entered the second month of his open-ended hunger strike in Kenitra Prison in Morocco amid growing warnings over the serious deterioration of his health.
In a solidarity statement issued on Monday under the title "A Cry of Dignity and an Urgent Appeal to Save the Life of Prisoner Naâma Asfari," the administrative unit strongly condemned what it described as the grave violations and degrading treatment endured by Asfari and his fellow prisoners from the Gdeim Izik Group. It stressed that the hunger strike, which was preceded by three warning hunger strikes in May, represents the prisoners' last remaining means of defending their dignity and freedom.
The Political and Administrative Unit expressed deep concern over the rapid and alarming deterioration of Asfari's health as a result of what it described as prolonged medical neglect and discriminatory treatment. The statement also highlighted the suffering of his family, denouncing the continued refusal to allow his wife, French human rights activist Claude Mangin Asfari, to visit him since 2018.
The statement added that these retaliatory practices form part of what it described as a long series of ongoing crimes committed by the Moroccan occupation against the Sahrawi people, including enforced disappearances, drone killings, and the confiscation of property. It asserted that such acts amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The administrative unit concluded its statement with an urgent appeal to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to intervene immediately to prevent what it warned could become a humanitarian catastrophe.
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