Archive for September, 2006
Sahrawi political prisoners on hunger strike : latest developments
30 September 2006 | Information/Update, Political Prisoners
Date: Saturday 30 September 2006
Place: El-Ayoune, Moroccan occupied Western Sahara; Inezgane and Aït Melloul, southern Morocco
‘Black Prison’, El-Ayoune, Western Sahara:
The health of the Sahrawi political prisoners on hunger strike since 4 September in the Black Prison continues to degrade, threatening their physical and psychological integrity.
Sahrawi human rights defender and ASVDH secretary-general Brahim SABBAR has [...]
Moroccan state kidnapping of three Sahrawi youths in Maatallah district
29 September 2006 | Information/Update
Date: Friday 29 September 2006
Place: El-Ayoune, Moroccan occupied Western Sahara
Yesterday, 28 September 2006, around 21:30 GMT, Moroccan policemen, in civilian dress, kidnapped three Sahrawi citizens, Mohammed Salem ELHAIRACH (pictured), born in 1992, and two other Sahrawi youths — one of who is handicapped — from the Maatallah district, El-Ayoune.
The families of the Sahrawi youth have [...]
Sahrawi political prisoners on hunger strike: latest news
28 September 2006 | Information/Update, Political Prisoners
Date: Thursday 28 September 2006
Place: El-Ayoune, Moroccan occupied Western Sahara; Inzegane and Aït Melloul, southern Morocco
Black Prison, El-Ayoune, Western Sahara:
The health of the 17 Sahrawi political prisoners in the Black Prison is in a continuous state of decline — day after day because of the unlimited hunger strike started on 4 September 2006.
Human rights [...]
Urgent appeal of the families of the Sahrawi political prisoners
25 September 2006 | Political Prisoners, Urgent Appeals
Appeal of the families of the Sahrawi political prisoners in the Black Prison of El-Ayoune on unlimited hunger strike
The health of our children, the Sahrawi political prisoners in the Black Prison of El-Ayoune, worsens dangerously, because of the unlimited hunger strike which they carry out since September 04, 2006. They are attacked of several diseases [...]
Report on Sahrawi Political Prisoners’ Hunger Strike: Day 20
24 September 2006 | Information/Update, Political Prisoners
Date : Saturday and Sunday, 23-24 September 2006
Place : El-Ayoune, Moroccan occupied Western Sahara, and southern Morocco
Black prison of El-Ayoune, Western Sahara:
Sunday September 23, 2006, the Sahrawi political prisoner Mohammed Lahbib ELGASMI (left) lost consciousness when his health degraded and suffers from atrocious pains in his intestines and stomach. Mr Elgamsi was transferred to [...]
Urgent Appeal to save the life of Sahrawi political prisoner, Said LOUMADI
24 September 2006 | Urgent Appeals
The health of Sahrawi political prisoners Said LOUMADI has degraded. He started an unlimited hunger strike on 7 August 2006 in the local prison of Inzegan, southern Morocco, causing himself several illnesses, especially in his stomach and intestines. He has been unable to move since 12 September, and unable to speak since 13 September, and [...]
Distress Call of the children of Brahim SABBAR
24 September 2006 | Political Prisoners, Urgent Appeals
Date: Friday, 22 September 2006
Place: El-Ayoune, Moroccan occupied Western Sahara
Following the Sahrawi political prisoners’ declaration of an unlimited hunger strike, among them Brahim SABBAR, on 4 September 2006,
which has caused illness and gradually destroying the weakened bodies of the prisoners,
we the daughter and sons of Brahim SABBAR (Sahrawi prisoner of opinion in the terrible [...]
Death of Sahrawi citizen, past victim of Moroccan torture
24 September 2006 | Information/Update
Date : Friday, 22 September 2006
Place : El-Ayoune
Laaroussi Mohamed Ali oueld Elbambari, left us on Tuesday, 19 September 2006, in El-Ayoune, after years of suffering from the torture he underwent in 1993. Laaroussi Mohamed Ali oueld Elbambari was the victim of kidnapping and ‘disappearance’ on 12 November 1993, in Smara, at the hands [...]
Urgent Appeal from ASVDH
19 September 2006 | Political Prisoners, Urgent Appeals
Sahrawi Association
Of the Victims of the Grave Human Rights Violations
Committed by the Moroccan State
Date: Tuesday September 19, 2006
The Sahrawi human rights defenders and political prisoners, headed by secretary-general of the Saharawi Association [ASVDH], have maintained an unlimited hunger strike since 4 September 2006, to confront the inhuman conditions of detention in the prisons of [...]
As their health fails, several Sahrawi political prisoners refuse medical attention, persist in their hunger strike
19 September 2006 | Information/Update, Political Prisoners
Date: Tuesday 19 September 2006
Place: El-Ayoune, Moroccan occupied Western Sahara; Inzegane, southern Morocco
Black Jail of El-Ayoune:
Today, 19 September 2006, Sahrawi human rights defender Ahmed SBAI (right) and Sahrawi political prisoner Elhafed TOUBALI (left) were urgently transferred to a health clinic from the Black Prison in El-Ayoune after having lost conscience under the effect [...]