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MOROCCAN AUTHORITIES ARRESTED TWO YOUNG HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN MAY 10 DEMONSTRATIONS/ANOTHER HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST TRIAL POSTPONED
15 / 05 / 2012 | Newsletter
El-Aaiun – Sahara Occidental 14.05.2012 On Friday, May 11 2012, the Moroccan authorities have put two young Saharaui in the Black Prison of El Aaiún for having participated in a demonstration organized by the Saharawi to denounce the repressive practices against the Saharawi population, expressing their solidarity with the political prisoners in the Moroccan prisons. [...]
Suite/More...Morocco/Western Sahara: No Action on Police Beating Dead-End Investigations of Attack on Human Rights Worker Fuel Impunity
15 / 05 / 2012 | Newsletter
For Immediate Release Morocco/Western Sahara: No Action on Police Beating Dead-End Investigations of Attack on Human Rights Worker Fuel Impunity (Rabat, May 15, 2012) – The failure of Moroccan authorities to follow through on investigating the beating by police of a Human Rights Watch research assistant is a case study of impunity for police violence, [...]
Suite/More...Saharawi fishermen and unemployed occupy a vessel in Dakhla
28 / 04 / 2012 | Newsletter
El-Aaiun – Sahara Occidental 27.04.2012 On Tuesday, April 24, 22 Saharawi unemployed and fishermen took possession of the fishing vessel Magnarson in the port of Dakhla/ Western Sahara. They have blocked the vessel for 13 hours in protest against the marginalization of the Saharawi in Dakhla. They denounce the systematic exclusion of 400 of them [...]
Suite/More...Police violence against Saharawi peaceful demonstration, the Human Rights still trampled
27 / 04 / 2012 | Newsletter
El Aaiun / Western Sahara April 26, 2012 Two young Saharawi activists were arrested on April 26 during a demonstration organized at Smara Avenue in occupied El Aaiún. Mahjoub Aaiach and Mustapha Lamma are prisoners at the central prefecture of the city where they may undergo acts of torture and other ill-treatment. (see EM video: [...]
Suite/More...Questionable and controversial judgments for the prisoners of Dakhla
21 / 04 / 2012 | Newsletter
El-Aaiun – Sahara Occidental 20.04.2012 On April 18 2012, 16 Saharawi and 7 Moroccan detainees have been brought before the first chamber of the Court of Appeal in El Aaiún, occupied Western Sahara, which rendered a verdict considering them guilty of the charges brought against them. The penalties range from 8 months to 3 years [...]
Suite/More...HEAVY SENTENCE under claims of false crimes to Saharaui political prisoner Saleh Sghayer
29 / 03 / 2012 | Newsletter
El Aaiun / Western Sahara March 29, 2012 The Court of Appeal of the city of El Aaiún / Western Sahara sentenced today the Saharawi citizen Saleh Sghayer to eight months in prison with following charges: blocking of the road, grounding of a criminal gang and criminal setting of fire. He was in pre-trial detention [...]
Suite/More...General Assembly: The intervention of Madame Djimi Elghalia at Interactive dialogue with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
06 / 03 / 2012 | Newsletter
General Assembly Human Rights Council 19th Session Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Interactive dialogue with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Madam President, Mister President of the working group on Arbitrary Detentions Our organizations continue to be disturbed by [...]
Suite/More...New harsh sentences against Sahrawi students
29 / 02 / 2012 | Newsletter
El Aaiun / Western Sahara February 28, 2012 Monday, February 27, 2012, the Court of First Instance, in Rabat, sentenced six young Saharawi political prisoners to three years in prison and fined 60,000 dirhams. (approx 6000 euros). The six young Saharawi political prisioners are: Slaima Messaad Abailail Said Ahmed Ayoub Lhbib Mansouri Mohamed Barrak Brahim [...]
Suite/More...UN FAMILIES VISITS PROGRAM RECEPTION WAS BRUTALLY ATTACKED BY MOROCCAN OCCUPATION FORCES
26 / 02 / 2012 | Newsletter
El-Aaiun – Sahara Occidental 26.02.2012 A reception in honor of the arrival of Mr. Lhrittani Lahcen was brutally attacked by moroccan police , friday evening, the 25 of February 2012, in the city of El Aaiún/ Western Sahara . Mr. Lhrittani Lahcen benefits from the families visits program promoted by the UN that allows Saharawi [...]
Suite/More...VIOLENCE AGAINST SOLIDARITY WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS IN SALÉ 2
24 / 02 / 2012 | Newsletter
El-Aaiun – Sahara Occidental 23.02.2012 34 Saharawi citizens were injured after a violent intervention of the moroccan police and auxiliary forces that intended to disperse a peaceful demonstration. The Gdaim Izik ´s Coordination called to demonstrate on February 23, 2012, in solidarity with the 23 Saharawi political prisoners confined in the prison of Sale 2, [...]
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