08/07/2010. 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).
18/06/2010. Aaiun (occupied Western Sahara), 06/17/2010 (SPS) .- The Committee for the Right to Self-determination of the Saharawi people (CODAPSO) has reported on Thursday that the prison administration in the Black Prison of El Aaiun is being out "serious" violations and abuses against the Saharawi political prisoners and human rights defenders who are Sahrawi in the prison.
16/06/2010. The commissioner general of prison administration proceeded on Friday June 11, 2010 to the arbitrary transfer of defender Saharawi human rights, Nayem Bouba, a Tarodanet prison after 7 days have been on hunger strike, and punished under confinement by the prison administration, where he has received "abuse and mistreatment," according to the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Communities Abroad.
LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR RELEASE SAHARAN POLITICAL PRISONERS
I am following with utmost concern the degrading situation of human rights that the people living under Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara as a result of the repressive system in place in the territory of Western Sahara through the deployment of multiple units to abuse, kidnapping and torturing peaceful demonstrators Sahrawis, as the persecution and harassment of human rights defenders, preventing the exercise of their fundamental rights and free expression of their legitimate rights to self-determination.
I am also concerned about the alarming situation experienced by dozens of Sahrawi political prisoners in the prisons of El Ayoun, Ait Meloul, Tiznit, Inzegan, Taroudanet, Salé and Kenitra. These prisoners were tortured, interrogated, subjected to unfair trials and sentenced for illegally, have been internationally recognized as prisoners of conscience.
Faced with this grave situation of abuse and violations of their fundamental rights contrary to international conventions and international humanitarian law, requires:
The immediate and unconditional release of ALL SAHARAN POLITICAL PRISONERS.