Two years of war Morocco joyful The Polisario Front is causing heavy civilian casualties. Saharawi organizations and the Government-in-exile, at least 19 civilians killed in the hands of the Moroccan Army and also 43 people jailed For political reasons.
Morocco keeps these Saharawi political activists on lockdown According to a complaint filed with EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA, a newspaper belonging to the same publishing group as this media, in prison centers of the country such as Bouizkarn, Ait Melloul or Tfiet, Baih Baih JamaaMember of the Saharan Human Rights Defenders Collective (CODESA) in Western Sahara.
These people “away from their families and deprived of visitationIn addition to enduring “constant aggression and humiliation” under “, “racist practices‘ and ‘to be completely isolated from the outside world’ condemns the organization.
Jamaa says the reasons for their imprisonment are varied and unfair. “Some are in jail for going out to celebrate victory Algeria at the African Cup‘ or ‘set up a tent in the wrong place’. This led to a few prisoners going on hunger strikes because of the ‘bad conditions’ they lived in. Some even ‘four life sentences‘ and ‘they will never see their families again’, accuses Jamaa of occupied territory.
Mohamed Lamin Haddi” physical and psychological torture After declaring his intention to go on a hunger strike in his cell in a letter to the prison administration, dangerous conditions of incarceration and not responding to their legitimate demands”, Haddi’s mother explains in a report by the Union for the Protection of Saharawi Prisoners in Moroccan Prisons.
Cristina Martinez, a member of the Political Prisoners Movement in the Sahara, explains that the prisons of the Kingdom of Morocco have “two doors”. Through the first, prisoners of Moroccan nationality who are treated according to their sentences enter; on the other hand, Saharawi prisoners detained for participating in protests for political demands or the right to self-determination. These they make a deal”inhuman and degrading“in which”beatings and psychological and physical abuse“They are daily bread.
Compromis senator Carles Mullet recalls that he has repeatedly condemned these “injustices” to Saharawi political prisoners, in letters addressed to Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares and related interventions in Senate sessions. The only response he got from the government was, as he explained to this newspaper, “throwing the balls out“. According to that, “the government never wanted to get wet directly“To solve this problem. The Moroccan embassy in Spain refused to answer questions about the condition of the prisoners to this newspaper.
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National delegate of the Polisario Front in Spain, Abdullah in Arabicclaims Rabat kills 44 in indiscriminate drone attacks Since the ceasefire with Morocco ended on 13 November 2020. According to Arabi, 19 civilians and 27 soldiers. Polisario is also filing a criminal complaint “sale of arms without any liability or compensation in contracts“and cross out,”sheer international hypocrisy“To countries that sell weapons to Morocco, including Spain.
“Spanish government has the task of participating in conflict resolution as a management force. To guarantee the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination. We are not against bilateral relations with Morocco, but finish the decolonization process” He draws attention in his statements to EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA.
The people of Saharawi claim pronunciation on your future in a referendum The right to self-determination, which, among other things, the census never reconciled, as Morocco claimed its sovereignty over the former Spanish colony. exist in the United Nations 84 states that recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). decolonization of their lands Province 53 of the Spanish territory It was a UN mandate process that required Spain and all countries to leave the occupied territories in Africa. The Franco dictatorship that ruled the colony at that time delayed the liberation of the region, but it was not until the last moments of the dictator’s life that Western Sahara was evacuated. The Green March in Morocco caused thousands of settlers to begin seizing land in the neighboring country, until they were expelled from their lands between Mauritania and Algeria.
During this time, the Moroccan army many times Geneva Conventions and International Law About the Saharawi people. Meanwhile, the Moroccan Government “Try to impose that there is no war”He talks about Abdullah Arabi. The Government of Spain by Pedro Sánchez to King VI. In a letter sent to Mohammed on March 14, he acknowledges that the “Moroccan way” of resolving the conflict is the most “serious, realistic and convincing”.