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Three Saharawi political prisoners in hunger strike in the "Carcel negra"

Three Saharawi political prisoners, Ahmed El Ahmedi, Laroussi Cheibada and Abderrahmane Lekouara, started a hunger strike, since Sunday, in solidarity with two other political prisoners, Deddi Hmada and Ahmed El Moussaoui, already in hunger strike and in "very bad" state in the Moroccan Carcel Negra (black jail), concordant sources indicated.

El Aaiun (occupied territories), 07/06/2006 The three Saharawi political prisoners expressed their "unconditional solidarity" with Deddi Hmada and Ahmed El Moussaoui, and asked for the "amelioration of the conditions of detentions and the ending of the ill-treatment and inhumane of the practices" they are subjected to by the Moroccan colonial authorities.

Two other young Saharawis: Ali Afif and Hamoudi Mohamed Ahmed (El Issaou) were forcibly abducted by the Moroccan forces of occupation from their school, "Ibn Zouhr", in the occupied city of Smara.

The two young Saharawis were tortured by the Moroccan police in the middle of the street, led to a police station where every were subjected to interrogatories under the command of the Moroccan torturers: Chenkli ad Simo, before been abandoned at dawn in "a very bad state" in a neighbourhood of the occupied cultural capital of the Western Sahara, Smara, the same source said.

Mr. Hamoudi Mohamed Ahmed El Issaou, who is suffering from a fracture in his leg, is in a "critical state of health without medical care", according to his family.

On another hand, the Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of Bojador, organised a demonstration, on Monday, advocating the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence.

These demonstrations, to which hundreds women and youngsters took part, were organised few days before the commemoration by the Saharawi people of the 30th anniversary of the fall in the field of honour of Martyr El Ouali Moustapha Sayed, Founder of Polisario Front, near the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott last June the 9th, 1976.

This anniversary will be organised in Aghoueinit, the liberated territory of the Saharawi Republic, it should be recalled.

The Moroccan forces of repression intervened as usual making use of excessive violence to disperse the peaceful demonstrators who were advocating the respect of human rights in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara and "the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation from the Western Sahara. (SPS)

 


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