AFAPREDESA
The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared
Triumphal reception for Tamek in Assa (report)
The Saharawi population in Assa and militants of the main cities of the Western Sahara, received last Thursday the 27th of February 2006, the heroes of the Saharawi uprising of independence...
Assa, 29/04/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi population in Assa and militants of
the main cities of the Western Sahara, received last Thursday the 27th of
February 2006, the heroes of the Saharawi uprising of independence, who
were recently released after international pressures from Moroccan prisons,
such as Ali Salem Tamek, Massoud Laarbi, Elmekki Hassanna, Bahia
Louchaa, Mahmoud Mustapha Lhaddad, Amidan Lwali, Jenhawi Lkhlifa, Bouamoud
Mohamed Salem and Taher Lghzal, who were serving different
sentences of imprisonment in the Moroccan Carcel Negra in the occupied city
of El Aaiun.
In the entry of the city, the Saharawi population from the different ages, in official clothes gathered to organise a triumphal reception to the political prisoners.
The group of prisoners was received by gourd of camel’s milk and a plate of dates, surrounded by women cries conforming to traditions, before heading to the house of Mr. Tamek, where a popular meeting was improvised.
To the meeting, the following organisations intervened, mainly Amnesty International, Front Line for human rights defenders, the Andalusan Federation for the solidarity o the Saharawi people, a Representative of the Saharawi Diaspora in France, the Saharawi political prisoners Amidan Lwali, Elmekki Hassanna an finally Ali Salem Tamek.
The speakers renewed their attachment to the protection of human rights in the Western Sahara, to the legitimate struggle of t Saharawi people for the liberation of their country and their right to self-determination and independence, and calling on the international community to put pressures on Rabat to force it release all the Saharawi political prisoners under Moroccan custody. (SPS)