AFAPREDESA
The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared
Five Saharawis arrested in the occupied cities of the Western Sahara including a human rights defender
The Moroccan colonial forces
arrested five Saharawi citizens, including the Secretary General of the
Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Human Rights violations
Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVVGDHEM), during demonstrations that
started on Saturday evening to Sunday early morning, in El Aaiun, advocating
"the immediate withdrawal" of the Moroccan occupier from the Western
Sahara, concordant sources indicated.
El Aaiun (occupied territories), 05/06/2006 (SPS)
The demonstrated were raising the flags of the Saharawi Republic and chanting slogans in favour of the Saharawi people’s rights to self/determination and independence.
The Moroccan foprces of occupation "brutally intervened" to disperse the demonstrators and arrested the Saharawi citizens: Abdallah Fakhari, Lehmad Mahjoub and Ali Chein.
The first was led to the colonial police station of 'Skeikima' street, the two others were led to the criminal police station of El Aaiun, while the Secretary General of the ASVVGDHEM, Brahim SABBAR, was arrested on Sunday evening by the Moroccan police in a "public phone" in 'Smara' street, and his fate remains unknown, the same sources add.
According to preliminary information, Mr. Sabbar is accused of having been interviewed by the Moroccan newspaper 'Albidaoui', and has claimed for the "judgment of the persons accountable for human rights abuses committed by the Moroccan State in the Western Sahara and has recalled that the only solution to the conflict is the organisation of a self/determination referendum".
A fifth person was arrested in the occupied city of Dajla, mainly the young Saharawi, Beda Mohamed Najem Abdallah.
ON another hand, the Saharawi human rights activist and trade unionist, Mohamed Jaïm, is still undertaking a hunger strike he started last May the 30th in front of the seat of the Moroccan administration of the Moroccan city of Marrakech, to protest against inhumane practices exercised against him by a Moroccan official (Pacha) of the locality of Bengrir, and to condemn the human rights violations committed by the Moroccan State.
Mohamed Jaïm, who is a worker in phosphate company, Phobucraa, was abusively transferred by the Moroccan authorities from the occupied Saharawi capital El Aaiun to the Moroccan city of Bengrir in 2002, because of his activities as a human rights defender and trade unionist, it should be recalled.
He suffers from many diseases such as strong asthma, it should be underlined. (SPS)