AFAPREDESA
The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared
Eight persons arrested during demonstrations in the occupied El Aaiun
Eight Saharawis at least were arrested, including an ex-political prisoner, during demonstrations that took place on Wednesday, in commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the Polisario Front, indicated concordant sources.
El Aaiun (occupied territories), 11/05/2006 (SPS) The demonstrators distributed thousands tracts rejecting the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara and asking for the Saharawi people right to self-determination and independence.
In "Ali ben Abdallah" intermediate school (El Aaiun- Western Sahara), the Moroccan forces of occupation "brutally arrested the Saharawi students: Boussaoula Mohamed Salem, Alouatt Vaissal, Lamiiz Othmane, Mouloud Al Bailal, Badr Al Haoumi and Mohamed Fadel Lembarki.
They also arrested the ex-political prisoner, Abdelaziz Day in company of Abderrahmane Mouloud Taoumi, the same sources added.
In the "Lemsal-la" secondary school (El Aaiun- Western Sahara), nine Saharawi students were "abusively" dismissed from the school by the Director of the establishment, who blamed them of "wearing the Saharawi traditional clothes", according to the same sources.
The mentioned students are: Miss. Khadijetou Doueiya, Miss. Sabah Larroussi, Mr. M'hamed Laghzal, Miss. Aichatou Toubali, Miss. Sofi Naiima, Miss. Rahma Khiraj, Mr. El Kentaouiya Beiba, Miss. Meyara Moulemnine and Miss. Mariem Moukhliss.
On another hand, information are spread since Tuesday, saying that the Director General of the Moroccan prisons started secret visits to the Moroccan Jails and meet wit the directors of the penitentiary establishments so as "to ameliorate the image" of Moroccan detention centres and "the situation of the Saharawi political prisoners" in the eve of the imminent visit of the UN’s Committee of human rights that will be dispatched to the Western Sahara.
On another hand, more than 40 Saharawi prisoners were "forcibly transferred" towards Moroccan jail inside the Moroccan territories, "without previous warning" from the colonial authorities.
The Moroccan authorities abusively deported the Saharawi citizen, Isleim Laghzal to the local prison of Ait Melloul, blaming him of been "behind the hunger strike and demonstrations" that are taking place in the occupied territories in favour of the independence of the Western Sara, the same source indicated. (SPS)