AFAPREDESA
The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared
16 persons arrested and 8 other wounded in confrontations in the occupied city of El Aaiun
16 Saharawi citizens, including 9 recently released Saharawi political
prisoners, were arrested on Wednesday in the occupied city of El Aaiun during
confrontations between the Moroccan colonial forces and Saharawi demonstrators,
who were "demonstrating to denounce the Moroccan Government’s
intransigence" and to advocate the Saharawi people’s right to
self-determination and independence, reported SPS’s correspondent
on the ground.
El
Aaiun (occupied territories), 27/04/2006 (SPS) The demonstrators also organised
a sit-in calling the Moroccan authorities to "account for 16 Saharawi
reported missing since last December the 25th, 2005", the same source
indicated.
The Moroccan forces of repression, which intervened brutally to disperse the demonstrators, arrested a group of 9 ex Saharawi political prisoners, right after they left the house of the Saharawi political prisoner, Alouatt Sidi Mohamed, to congratulate him for having been released by the Moroccan colonial authorities, Last Saturday, in company de 37 other Saharawi political prisoners.
The arrested prisoners are: Nafaa Bouchama, Sghaîr Mahfoudh, Baba Al Arabi, Al Ansari Mohamed Salem, Daha Tanji, Ndour Sid'Ahmed, Saleh Rgueibi, Amidan Cheikh, Zreiguinatt Houssein. While another 7 Saharawi citizens were also arrested by the Moroccan authorities, mainly Abdallah Sidi Mahmoud, Mohamed Salem Boutenguiza, Aziza Mouloud Dadi, Mohamed Salem Abderrahmane Heiba, Siyda Abderrahmane Heiba, Moulaye El Houssein and Mohamed Fadel Choueikh.
Among the wounded in this confrontation the report named Sidi Salem Dlil, Moustapha Sidi Mahmoud, Benta Boutenguiza, Douiba Mokhtar, M'barka Sid'Ahmed Deya, Mohamed Sidi, Abdelaziz Dahane and Sid'Ahmed Boutenguiza, who "are suffering wounds on the different parts of their bodies".
It should be underlined that the house of the family of the recently Saharawi political prisoner, Alouatt Sidi Mohamed, "is still under tight surveillance", the same source added. (SPS)