Morocco disrupts meeting between ASVDH and Spanish party leader bearing message for Aminatou Haidar’s children
13/12/2009 | Information-Update
Early this evening Moroccan authorities halted a meeting between Ms. Djimi El-Ghalia, Vice President of ASVDH, and Rosa Díez, leader of Spain’s Union, Progress and Democracy party (Unión Progreso y Democracia, UPyD), in the company of two other activists.
Ms. Djimi El-Ghalia said that 20 minutes after the arrival of three visitors, over 20 men, representing various Moroccan security services, came to her house to inform Ms. Rosa Díez that the meeting had been prohibited by their superiors.
Ms. Díez came to El Aaiun, Western Sahara, to carry a message from Ms. Aminatou Haidar, who is in her 28th day of hunger strike, to her children, saying that she has not forgotten them.
Ms. Díez discussed of important issues dealing with human rights with Ms. Djimi El-Ghalia.
ASVDH expresses its deep concern over the barring of this meeting, which comes as a part of a Moroccan state campaign against Sahrawi human rights activists and restrictions on civil liberties in Western Sahara.
ASVDH launches an appeal to the international authorities and organizations to intervene with the Moroccan government for the immediate cessation of all forms of harassment and to allow Sahrawi human rights activists to work freely.
El-Aiun Western Sahara
13.12.2009
