Agadir (Morocco), 26 December 2025 (SPS) – The two imprisoned Sahrawi students, Salah Eddine Essbar and Ibrahim Babit, sent letters to international public opinion in which they documented the serious violations they are subjected to inside the Ait Melloul 2 prison on the outskirts of the Moroccan city of Agadir, calling for the immediate release of all Sahrawi civilian prisoners in Moroccan jails.
The Moroccan occupation authorities had issued, on 17 December of this year, unjust sentences against the two students, convicting them with 8 months of effective imprisonment in addition to a heavy financial fine on fabricated charges, after they defended the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination.
In his letter, Salah Eddine Essbar stated that he is being held in a tiny cell, where he is subjected to systematic repression, which confirms that violations against Sahrawi prisoners have become “an entrenched policy.”
He added that the authorities practice “various forms of discriminatory treatment” against detainees, whether by prison guards or other prisoners who are incited against them, in addition to restrictions on visits, denial of communication, deliberate medical neglect, psychological pressure, and attempts to force them to abandon their firm positions.
For his part, the Sahrawi prisoner Ibrahim Babit stated in his letter that the authorities follow an approach of “systematic targeting” inside the prison, where Sahrawi students are not viewed as ordinary detainees but as voices that must be subdued by all means. This is reflected, he said, in “racist treatment, poor living conditions, and deprivation of the most basic rights.”
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