Unlimited Hunger Strike: Day 17
12/03/2008 | Political Prisoners
Daily Report on the health status of political prisoners on unlimited hunger strike in the Black Prison in El-Ayoune
Monitoring Committee
Report of the seventeenth day, March 12, 2008
The health of the Sahrawi political detainees in the Local Prison of Salé and the Black Prison of El-Ayoune is still worrying and requires a rapid and urgent intervention to save the lives of these prisoners on unlimited hunger strike. In this context, a group of French associations and activists have implemented an urgent appeal to be sent to French and Moroccan governments in order to liberate the Saharawi political prisoners and stop human rights violations perpetrated by the Moroccan State against Sahrawi citizens.
The health of the Sahrawi political detainees in the Black Prison is extremely worrying. Fatigue, loss of consciousness and other pains are symptoms marking the seventeenth day of the hunger strike.
In addition, the state of health of Mr. Said ELBAILLAL, who can neither walk nor talk, is seriously worrying. The Saharawi political prisoner suffer from loss of consciousness, increased heartbeat, and decreased blood pressure, loss of sleep, inflammation of the kidneys, diarrhoea. The ASVDH has launched an urgent appeal to Mr. ELBAILLAL in an effort to convince him to end his hunger strike and to protect his life which is in danger, especially in front of the recklessness of the prison administration.
We recall that Sahrawi political detainees, in the Black Prison in El-Ayoune began an unlimited hunger strike since Feb. 25, 2008, while Mr. Said ELBAILLAL is pursuing a similar strike in the local prison of Salé, since Feb. 20. In addition, the Saharawi political prisoners, divided on Moroccan prisons of Taroudant, Tiznit, Ait Melloul, Kenitra, began, Monday, March 10, 2008, an unlimited hunger strike, demanding to improve their conditions of detention inside these prisons, as well as their legitimate rights guaranteed by international conventions and treaties, as prisoners of conscience.
