El Aaiun (occupied Western Sahara), 07/07/2010 (SPS) .- On Monday, July 5, 2010, the Sahrawi activist Yahia Mohamed El Hafed Iaza was transferred from the local Moroccan prison of Ait Melul to the regional hospital of the Moroccan city of Agadir, and who came to claim the right to treatment for a long time due to eye disease, informed the Committee of Saharawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA).
The same source said that the Saharawi activist was in the hospital several hours waiting for the doctor who specializes in eye diseases, which stressed the need to be assisted after medical tests confirmed that there is good vision.
CODESA considered very likely that the poor vision Yahia Mohamed El Hafed Iaza results from the complications of open-ended hunger strike, which lasted about 62 days, and punishments received in the local prison of Ait Melloul, due to their positions on the Western Sahara issue.
Yahya Mohamed Hafez, 43, father of three children and the sole breadwinner for his family, was arrested on February 29, 2008 and tortured from then on his political opinion and activism in favor of Human Rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
The Court of Agadir was sentenced to 15 years in prison for participating in peaceful demonstrations and interned in a cell with common prisoners. In the legal proceedings against him, was impregnated with multiple violations of fundamental rights from the start, being sued by a "court of occupation", accusing him of "not proven fact, any activity probation and denied the right to effective judicial protection" , had denounced the lawyer members of the International Observer Mission who attended the trial.