AFAPREDESA
The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared
Five young Saharawis aggressed in Boujdour, sporadic demonstrations in Smara
5 young Saharawis were aggressed by the Moroccan forces of occupation in the occupied city of Boujdour, whilst sporadic demonstrations were taking place since last Friday in several occupied cities of Smara and Boujdour.
Smara (occupied territories), 06/05/2006 - Moreover, a Saharawi woman, Aminetou
Ely Mhamed, was deprived from receiving the visit of her sister, who was
coming from the refugee camps within the framework of the United Nation’s
supervised family-exchange visit programme. Mrs. Aminetou was accused by
the Moroccan authorities of participating in peaceful demonstrations last
April the 26 and 27, advocating Saharawi people’s right to self-determination
and the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan colonial forces from the occupied
territories.
The Saharawi political
prisoner, Lehcen Abdallahi, was transported to the local prison in the Moroccan
city of Ait Melloul, while his parents are looking after him in the hospital
of Agadir.
The family, who had many negotiations with the Moroccan medical service in the hospital that did not allow them to see their son while he was there, had had to go back to the prison of Ait Melloul where they were not allowed by the penitentiary authorities to visit him, knowing that the state of the prisoner is "critical", according to the family.
Mr. Lehcen Abdallahi is in his 40th day of hunger strike. He is the 14th of the last Saharawi political prisoners still maintained in Moroccan custody in the prisons of El Aaiun (2 prisoners), Inzegan (10 prisoners) and Ait Melloul (2 prisoners).
The Moroccan colonial authorities announced, in the eve of the last meeting of the UN’s Security Council on the Western Sahara, that they released all the Saharawi political prisoners, it was recalled. (SPS)