AFAPREDESA
The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared
Abduction of a Saharawi citizen in the occupied city of Dakhla Dakhla
The Moroccan forces of occupation proceeded last Thursday to the ransacking of the family house of Ejwad Kmach and the abduction to his son, Salouk Ejwad Kmach, and transported in a car driven by the Moroccan torturer, Abdellatif Bahri, accompanied by two of his assistants, the correspondent of SPS in the occupied city of Dakhla.
22/04/2006 (SPS) (occupied territories), The Saharawi citizen, Salouk Ejwad Kmach, was transported to a police station in the cit, where he was submitted to "all sorts of physical and moral torture" by a group of Moroccan torturers, the same source indicated, adding that the house of Ejwad Kmach "is still under close Moroccan forces of occupation surveillance".
Moreover, the Moroccan colonial authorities of the occupied city of Dakhla designated a special group for the control of cyber-cafés usually frequented by Saharawis, the same source underlined. In this respect, the Moroccan forces of occupation arrested 4 Saharawi youngsters in an Internet cafe. The victims are: Talbi Fadili, El houssein Lahbib Ali Lahmar, Lembarki Sid'Ahmed and Labrass Ali Salem. Moreover, the house of the Saharawi human rights activist, Miské Ahmed Zein, was submitted to "close surveillance by the Moroccan authorities, who are regularly tracking his movement and the houses he visits", after his arrival to the occupied city of Dakhla.
On their side, the Saharawi students in the secondary school "Lissan Eddine Ben Al Khatib", raised the flags of the Saharawi Republic and chanted slogans claiming for "the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation from the Western Sahara and reaffirming that Polisario Front is the legitimate representative of the Saharawi people". They also expressed their "solidarity with their fellows in the city of Assa (Sout of Morocco), who are suffering a wide campaign of arrest and a state of security siege imposed on the city by the Moroccan colonial forces".
The Moroccan forces of repression arrested the Saharawi citizens, Al Mansour Lidrissi, Najii Bachir, Kharchi Wissi, what raises the number of the Saharawi arrested citizens to 7 in this southern Moroccan city, the same source added.
In M'hamid ElGhizlan (South of Morocco), the Saharawi citizens organised a sit-in in which they expressed their "rejection of the autonomy announced by the Moroccan Government and asked for the right of the Saharawi people right to self-determination, freedom and independence".
They also "affirmed their engagement to continue the peaceful struggle via the uprising of independence, calling or the immediate and unconditional release of all Saharawi political prisoners and reaffirmed their attachment to the political leadership of the Polisario Front", the same source concluded. (SPS)