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Balagh Brahim and Ali Salem Bariaz were arrested Dec. 13, 2008 and incarcerated in Marrakesh’s local prison awaiting trial. Said El Ouaban was arrested June 3, 2009 in Smara and was transferred from Marrakesh to Salé prison because of university exams he too awaiting trial and an official charge .
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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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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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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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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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ASVDH’s detailed report on the worsening health situation of Mrs Dagja Lachgar, held in Salé prison north of Rabat since October 8, 2009, and the negative effects of the harsh prison conditions that she has suffered there, has had an impact on her case. Also, the intervention of Mrs Khadija Merouazi, Secretary General of the Mediation for Democracy and Human Rights in Morocco, before the Moroccan military court in Rabat helped Ms Dagja Lachgar, a prisoner of conscience and member of executive office of ASVDH, before two psychologists. Their expertise has been presented to the the Moroccan military court judge, attesting to her fragile psychological status. As a result, the prison administration transferred Ms Degja Lachgar to a cell with six common law female prisoners.
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Three of the seven Sahrawi human rights activists held in Salé prison, near Rabat, Morocco, since October 8, 2009, were brought before the investigating judge of the Moroccan military court today, Thursday. The judge heard Ms Dagja Lachgar for more than four hours, ascertaining on her mental state before returning her to the prison. Mr Ahmed Nassiri and Yahdih Ettarouzi were brought before the same judge after hearing Ms. Dagja Lachgar.
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Three of the Sahrawi human rights activists held in Salé prison north of Rabat since October 8, 2009, were brought before the investigating judge of the military court in Rabat today, Wednesday. They are Brahim Dahane, president of ASVDH, Ali Salem Tamek, Vice-President of CODESA, Saleh Labihi President of the Sahraoui Forum to Protect Childhood.
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The brother of Ahmed Mahmoud Haddi told ASVDH that he was finally able to contact his brother personally. He visited him in the Moroccan prison of Oukacha (Casablanca) today December 17, 2009, around 10:00 for 20 minutes. The brother added that his brother began a hunger strike 10 days after his abduction by Moroccan authorities when he was at Timar in Rabat, Morocco.
