El Aaiun (Occupied Western Sahara), July 30, 2026 (SPS) – Sahrawi human rights organizations have warned of the deteriorating health condition of Sahrawi civilian prisoner Mohamed Lamine Haddi as a result of the continued policy of deliberate medical neglect against him in Moroccan occupation prisons, calling for united international efforts to end what they described as his unjust detention.
In a statement, the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH) said that the continued denial of medical treatment and adequate healthcare to civilian prisoner Mohamed Lamine Haddi at Tiflet 2 Prison constitutes "a clear violation of all international instruments relating to the protection of persons deprived of their liberty."
The Association added that the Sahrawi prisoner, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence, suffers from "serious stomach problems that have worsened since he suspended his open-ended hunger strike on July 24, after 12 consecutive days of the battle of empty stomachs." This, it noted, has resulted in "health complications requiring urgent and specialized medical care."
The statement further clarified that the prisoner "endures daily suffering because of the prison diet, which includes food that has serious adverse effects on his health and contributes to worsening his pain. Despite repeatedly informing the prison authorities that the food provided is unsuitable for his medical condition, the prison administration continues to ignore his requests and deliberately endangers his health."
The Association held the Moroccan occupation authorities and the prison administration "fully responsible" for the safety and life of the Sahrawi prisoner. It called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the UN Special Rapporteurs, all United Nations human rights mechanisms, and international human rights organizations to "urgently intervene to put an end to the policy of medical neglect and retaliation against civilian prisoner Mohamed Lamine Haddi and to hold the Moroccan authorities accountable for the ongoing violations committed against Sahrawi civilian prisoners in its prisons."
In the same context, the Association for the Protection of Sahrawi Prisoners in Moroccan Prisons condemned, in a separate statement, the systematic policy pursued by the Moroccan occupation authorities against Sahrawi prisoners in an attempt to break their will, noting that such practices "have been documented in numerous United Nations reports."
The Association stressed that the prisoner's decision to suspend his hunger strike after 12 consecutive days "does not in any way mean an end to the catastrophic conditions endured by Sahrawi political prisoners, particularly the Gdeim Izik Group, nor does it signal the end of their struggle for freedom or the abandonment of their fundamental rights." It recalled that these rights have been affirmed by UN reports and international legal instruments, including findings by the UN Committee against Torture and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, both of which concluded that the prisoners' detention is arbitrary and that confessions were extracted under torture, and called for their immediate release.
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