Sahrawi citizen taken hostage
09 Jul 2007 | Information/Update
El-Ayoune – Western Sahara
Sunday July 8, 2007
The Moroccan police force violated the house of the Sahrawi citizen, Mr. Beidi Ould Salama SAH, the day before yesterday, July 6, 2007 at 23 H GMT. The Moroccan policemen arrested Mr. Beidi, after having attacked his mother Mrs. Nhabouha Ment Aram and his daughter Aghleila. This Sahrawi citizen was arrested as hostage so as his son Nafaai son goes to the police force. But the Moroccan police was forced to release this citizen following the gathering of a great number of the Sahrawi citizens in front of the judicial police station, Saturday July 7, 2007, to call for his release.
We recall that the Moroccan police force had put the house of this citizen, which is in the Lahouhoum district in El-Ayoune, under monitoring with an aim of arresting his son. We also point out that Mr. Beidi is an old man of more than 50 years.
In addition, ASVDH was informed that the Sahrawi political prisoners imprisoned in Tiznit (Morocco) started an unlimited hunger strike to protest against the inhuman conditions of their detention and to claim the respect of their rights as political prisoners.
In this respect we point out that these prisoners had started before an unlimited strike which they stopped when the penitentiary direction had promised to answer their proclamations. These prisoners started again their strike following the refusal of the penitentiary direction to respect its engagements and the rights of these prisoners.
In the same way, the Sahrawi students, imprisoned with the local prison of Salé, continue to carry out their unlimited hunger strike since June 10, 2007, and their health becomes alarming. The penitentiary direction continues its negligence to the health of these strikers and refuses to answer their claims.
The death of the Sahrawi prisoner, Mr. Dada Ali Ould Hamma Ould Nafaa, on July 6, 2007, in Agadir, following the inhuman conditions of his detention, is a sufficient reason so that the asvdh remains worried by the situation of the Sahrawi prisoners in the Moroccan prisons.