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Statement of saharaui political prisioners in Sale prision
Sale Prison April 2011 STATEMENT OF SAHARAUI POLITICAL PRISONERS IN SALE PRISON (MOROCCO) After more than five months of imprisonment in Sale Prison during which the Military courts in Rabat have been well informed (instructed) of our cases and after the violent attack on Saharaui civilians perpetrated by the Moroccan authorities on 8 November 2010 to eject (oust) the camp Gdeim Izik located outside the occupied city of El Aaiun, the subsequent kidnappings, disappearances and arbitrary detentions, barbarism which remind us of the Saharaui population have been suffering since the last century after the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. While waiting for our appearance before the military court in Rabat, the Moroccan authorities have invented and produced evidence to the Moroccan style of the hard (referred to hard years of lead) years in Western Sahara -under Hassan II's rule we continue to suffer miserable conditions inside the prison, where we lack our most basic rights. In these five months we have been individually isolated, twenty prisoners suffering complications and very serious diseases physical and psychological. In addition to being deprived of our liberty and subjected to violation of our most basic rights, our families suffer not only because of our situation but due to the long distances they must travel and travel expenses that they have to meet on twice-weekly visits for a period not exceeding fifteen minutes. Given the difficult and inhuman conditions to which we are subjected, after carrying out hunger strikes in February and March, we 20 prisoners have decided : - To start a hunger strike on Tuesday April 19, 2011. - We request of those in charge of the Moroccan Penitentiary Administration treatment in accordance with our remand status to exercise our legitimate rights guaranteed and protected by law and international treaties and conventions, in particular the rules/ laws on treatment of prisoners. - We request acceleration of our judgments to ensure compliance with the conditions for holding fair and impartial trials. - We call upon relevant intergovernmental and nongovernmental, political and human rights organizations, including United Nations and the European Union, especially France and Spain to put pressure on the Moroccan state and act to protect our rights as Sahraui political prisoners in our peaceful political struggle to defend the right of the Saharaui people to self-determination guaranteed by international law. Our detention in the city of El Aaiun was due to participation in the mass exodus featuring thousands of Saharaui to camp Gdeim Izik in a free and genuine expression of legitimate and peaceful struggle in the same form which has been followed by the Arab peoples. This popular peaceful revolution is unique and was realized by the Saharaui in the camp of Gdeim Izik of which the world has been a witness, is a historical event that makes us feel proud to our longing like that of all Arab peoples who want to gain freedom and dignity against tyranny, oppression and occupation. We urge the international human rights legal organizations, especially Arab and Moroccan organizations to open an investigation into what the Saharaui hostages and detainees have suffered in the aftermath of Camp Izik with the brutal intervention of the Moroccan forces of repression, especially those responsible for the gendarmerie, police and auxiliary police repression, torture and brutal persecution carried out by the Moroccan state, including elders, women and children. Camp Gdeim Izik is the historical result of a succession of events which provide the setting in the Saharaui peaceful rebellion which began on May 20, 2005. Enaama Asfari representing the group of twenty political prisoners from the prison of Salé 1) Ennama Asfari. 2) Ahmed Sbai 3) Sid Ahmed Lemjayed. 4) Abdallahi Lakhfaouni. 5) Mohammed Tahlil. 6) Bashir Khadda. 7) Hassan Dah. 8) Banga Cheikh. 9) Mohamed Lamine Haddi. Miembros del Comité de Diálogo del campamento: 10) Abdallahi Toubali. 11) Mohamed Bourial. 12) Houssein Zaoui. 13) Daich Dafi. 14) Abdeljalil Laarousi 15) Sidi Abdel Rahman Zayou 16) Mohamed Bashir Boutenguiza (militante asociado a la presidencia de la asociación de desarrollo y compatibilidad de los inmigrantes) 17) Sidi Abdellah Abhah (militante asociado a la presidencia de la asociación de desarrollo y compatibilidad de los inmigrantes) 18) Mohamed Bani. 19) Mohamed Elayoubi. 20) Taqui Elmachdoufi.
