Western Saharan rights activist, Hassanna Duihi, taken from hotel room by secret Moroccan police
08/02/2010 | Information-Update
ASVDH has learned that the human rights activist Mr Hassanna Duihi has been abducted Monday from his hotel room in Tiznit by ten Moroccan plainclothes police officers.
In a declaration from the lawyer Mrs Dolores Travieso, Mr Hassanna was accompanying her and the lawyer Julio Vega from El Aiun to Tiznit yesterday, Sunday, for the upcoming trial of ten Western Saharan political prisoners set for today, 8 February 2010. She added that their rooms were in the same hallway.
The activist Mr Hassanna Duihi is a member of ASVDH, age 46 and father of three children. He has been subjected to detention, harassment and physical abuse several times for his relations with foreign trial observers that visit Western Sahara.
ASVDH vehemently denounces such practices against human rights defenders who sacrifice themselves in the name of justice and human rights.
ASVDH launches an urgent appeal to all the international NGOs to intervene with the Moroccan authorities to free Mr Hassanna Duihi and guarantee his freedom to move with and contact international observers without fear of being followed.
Also, ASVDH calls for the liberation of all Western Saharan prisoners of opinion without conditions.
February 8, 2010
El Aaiun, Western Sahara
