Degja Lachgar on hunger strike for better prison conditions
22/01/2010 | Information-Update, Political Prisoners
Degja Lachgar
Sahrawi Human Rights activist and member of the executive office of the ASVDH, Degja Lachgar, detained in the prison of Salé, along with six of her colleagues, began a hunger strike on Monday, January 18, to protest against the inhumane conditions of her and to achieve a reduction of the number of women in her cell by two, allowing her to have a personal radio and to meet her colleagues detained in the same prison.
Degja Lachgar
According to Ms. Fatima Lachgar, her sister began refusing to eat last Monday, surviving on sugar-water, and has remained on strike to today, Friday. She insists to be allowed to meet with her colleagues, despite the prison administration commit to her first two such petitions.
We recall that Ms. Degja Lachgar, survivor of secret detention centers in the 1980s, because of her political positions, suffers from mental illness since her last arrest in October 2009.
For more details, you can read the ASVDH report on the visit of the Vice-President Ms. Ghalia Djimi in Rabat and Sale Prison [French / Arabic ].
El-Aiun Western Sahara
21/01 / 2010
