Information-Update

New mass grave found in Moroccan occupied Western Sahara

11 / 03 / 2010 | Information-Update

ASVDH has learned of a new mass grave likely containing Western Saharans was discovered in the area of Boucraâ, east of the city of El Aaiun, Western Sahara, according to corroborating sources.

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Moroccan police detain, abuse young Sahrawi woman and young child

11 / 03 / 2010 | Information-Update

Moroccan police unlawfully detained Ngaya El-Haouassi, a Saharawi student, on a street in El-Aaiun yesterday, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. They forced her into a patrol car and headed towards the outskirts of the city. There they subjected her to questioning about her involvement in the events in the city of El-Aaiun, Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Moroccan police brutally disperse self-determination protest in Western Sahara

10 / 03 / 2010 | Information-Update

Yesterday twenty Sahrawi citizens were injured during a violent intervention by Moroccan police to disperse a peaceful demonstration on the main street of the Maatallah quarter in El-Aaiun, Western Sahara.

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Morocco allows 12 Western Sahara rights activists to visit Tindouf while six linger in prison awaiting charges for making the same trip last year

08 / 03 / 2010 | Information-Update

Today around 11.35 GMT eight Sahrawi human rights defenders arrived at the Mohammed V airport in Casablanca. The militants had visited the Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf, southwest Algeria. Contrary to what happened to seven Sahrawi human rights activists in October 8, these Sahrawi activists have fortunately not been subjected to ill treatment, detention and charges of treason by Moroccan authorities.

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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.

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Ahmed Mahmoud Haddi (El Kainan) appears in court

29 / 01 / 2010 | Information-Update, Political Prisoners

Ahmed Mahmoud Haddi (El Kainan), a Sahrawi human rights defender and political prisoner, appeared Thursday, January 28, 2010, before the Moroccan investigating judge of the Court of Appeal in Rabat for a second time, dealing with his arrest in November in Casablanca. The charges come under common and criminal law.

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Degja Lachgar provisionally released from Moroccan prison

28 / 01 / 2010 | Information-Update, Political Prisoners

Today, 28 January, around noon, ASVDH has learned of the liberation of its colleague, Degja Lachgar, imprisoned in Salé, Morocco, with six other human rights defenders.

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Western Saharan students, imprisoned for expressing opinions, transfered

26 / 01 / 2010 | Information-Update, Political Prisoners

ASVDH has learned that the two Sahrawi students Baba Ali Toumi and Abdellah Dihani are now detained in the prison of Ait Meloul south of Agadir. They were previously incarcerated in the prison of Okasha and Berchid near Casablanca. Their conditions of detention are harsh and not consistent with international or Moroccan law.

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Degja Lachgar on hunger strike for better prison conditions

22 / 01 / 2010 | Information-Update, Political Prisoners

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.

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Moroccan authorities deny passports to two Western Saharan rights defenders

20 / 01 / 2010 | Information-Update

Mr Dah Mustapha and Mrs El Ghalia Djimi, ASVDH members, have said that the Moroccan passport authorities have refused to issue them their passports. Ms. Ghalia deposited her file on 24 December 2009 and Mr. Mustapha has filed his on 5 January 2010. In the normal case when a person has deposited a file, it is available in three days.

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