Ait Melloul (Morocco), June 1, 2010 (SPS) - Saharawi political prisoners Salama Sharafi and Bouba Najem were victims of a violent assault by prison authorities in the prison of Ait Melloul, said source close to the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Communities Abroad.
Najem Bouba was surprised by the penetration of the deputy director of the prison with his collaborators in the cell, where he is kept, and conducted an investigation, according to the same source, qualifying this aggression of reaction to a complaint against the administration, filed in May by his family to the general prosecutor of king in the Court of Appeal in Agadir, dismissing the accusations presented by the Court of First Instance in Agadir against its son and condemning his sentence to four years in prison.
On his part, Salama Charafi was assaulted and beat up by members of the prison authorities, for asking them to provide him care for diseases he suffers as result of neglect and indifference of this administration to his health and psychological state.
He was recently transferred to the hospital in Agadir, where he spent six days for treatment, before he was escorted back to his cell in the prison of Ait Melloul, the source recalled.
On the other hand, the Sahrawi citizens of the occupied city of Smara staged a demonstration in which they waved flags of the Saharawi Republic and chanted slogans demanding the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara and the self-determination of Saharawi people.
They also reiterated their commitment to the sole legitimate representative of the Saharawi people, the Polisario Front.
The demonstration also called for an end to the Moroccan repression against Saharawi civilians in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, stop the looting and the systematic exploitation of natural resources in Western Sahara and release of all Saharawi political prisoners who are still in Moroccan prisons. (SPS)