dimanche, janvier 25, 2009

Activistas saharauis despedidos del trabajo por la simple labor en la defensa de los DDHH en EL Sahara Occidental

Desde el año 2001 Maruecos persigue y presiona a los activistas saharauis de Derechos Humanos en el Sahara Occidental . Después de las decenas de denuncias por parte de las ONG defensoras de Derechos Humanos en el Sahara Occidental contra las autoridades de Marruecos sobre las detenciones , la tortura , las deportaciones y la despedida del trabajo de múltiples activistas de Derechos Humanos saharauis . Marruecos aun no hizo fin a esa campaña continua de perseguir a los activistas de Derechos Humanos en el Sahara Occidental.

En Smara :

- Ahmed Ennasiri : es ex preso político , funcionario y miembro del Comité Saharaui para la Defensa de DDHH en Smara , perdió su puesto de trabajo después de su encuentro con Front Line que visito la ciudad de Smara en la misma fecha .
- Faku labaihi ( funcionario ; presidente del Comité Saharaui para la Defensa de DDHH en Smara ) y Salek Batal ( miembro del Comité Saharaui para la Defensa de DDHH en Smara ) son objetos de represalias casi diariamente ; entraron en huelga de hambre limitada como forma de protesta contra los malos tratos por parte de su jefe de trabajo .

En Aaiun :

- Mohamed Mayara : funcionario ; miembro del ASVDH . Fue expulsado de su trabajo en la Alcaldía de Aaiun a causa de su participación en el Consejo de Derechos Humanos en Ginebra / Suiza en marzo de 2008 .

En Tantan / sur de Marruecos :

- Lhaiba Lmah : perdió su puesto de trabajo en el año 2005 ; es miembro en CODESA entro en huelga de hambre en Tantan en protesta contra el Comisario jefe de la seguridad en dicha ciudad El llamado Mustafa Kamour . Este comisario que maltrato a este activista en pleno día y frente a decenas de ciudadanos saharauis por haberle participado en el funeral del estudiante saharaui Housain Laktif que murió en Agadir / sur de Marruecos .


En Assa – Zak :

- La familia del periodista saharaui Mustafa Abdedayam ( condenado a 03 años de prisión firme ) entran en huelga de hambre limitada para protestar contra el juicio sumario del tribunal de Agadir a su hijo Mustafa Abdedayam , que le condeno a 03 años de prision firme y la prohibicion del trabajo durante 10 años mas una multa de 50.000 DH ( 5000 euros ) .


Añadiendo a todos estos los activistas de Derechos Humanos en las prisiones de Marruecos Yahya Mohamed El Hafed ( 15 años de prisión firme ) , Luali Amidan ( 05 años de prisión firme ) , Mahmud Haddi Kainan ( 03 años de prisión firme ) y Mohamed Tahlil ( 02 años de prision firme ) que fueron condenados en juicios sumarios en los tribunales de Marruecos .


La ODS 2° Generación considera que todas las violaciones de Derechos Humanos que tocan los defensores de estos derechos tienen como objetivo callar la voz de estos activistas para no revelar las violaciones a la opinión publica internacional .

Por lo cual Marruecos no cumple con sus deberes como potencia ocupante del territorio , violando por dichos actos la Declaración sobre los Defensores de los Derechos Humanos, adoptada por la Asamblea General de la ONU el 9 de diciembre de 1998 .

La ODS 2° Generacion manifiesta su seria preocupación por la seguridad y por la integridad física y psicológica de todos los defensores de Derechos Humanos en el Sahara Occidental , mientras que el Estado de Marruecos no muestra una actitud contraria a la actual .

Por lo que la ODS 2° Generacion sulicita que toda la opinion publica internacional y la comunidad internacional presione a Marruecos para garantizar que los defensores de derechos humanos gocen de la libertad en ejercer su labor y evitar a cualquier accion que limite u obstaculice su trabajo .

Comite preparativo del ODS 2° Generacion
Aaiun / Sahara Occidental : 27 de diciembre de 2008

Morocco continues to commit his crimes against

The saharawi defenders organization (ODS) 2nd Generation expresses its utmost preoccupation for the deteriorating situation of human rights in Western Sahara.
Morocco's government still does not show in any way good faith in its promises to respect the international conventions relating to respect of human rights in Western Sahara.
After the tragic events in Agadir / south of Morocco, in which victims were three university Saharawi students (two dead and one in a coma, he is still in Hassan the 2nd hospital in Agadir); Also consecutive brutal interventions against all those who carry Morocco its full responsibility of his crimes in Laayoune, Smara, and Tantan. Morocco until today does not show any gesture that may indicate that the perpetrators of that crime may be convicted in a fair trial. The same cases of Hamdi Lembarki and Abachikh Lekhlifi in 2005 were repeated this year.
Peaceful demonstrations condemning Morocco is still remaining in Western Sahara and southern Morocco. The day on December 13, 2008 Hundreds of protesters came out on the streets of Gulmim (220 km south of Agadir) to condemn the crime committed against the Saharawi students and demand the release of Saharan political prisoners in prisons in Morocco and the Carcel Negra in Laayoune / Western Sahara.
Morocco, as is usual, brutally intervened against the demonstrators, arrested and tortured dozens of them.
The ODS 2nd Generation could ensure, on an interim basis, the following: a) detainees:
01 - Brahim Mukhtar Bariaz: Sahrawi student. The Moroccan police took him from Gulmim to Marrakesh because of an arrest warrant since 2007 for participating in demonstrations of the Saharawi students at the university of Marrakech.
02 - Ali Salem Lehbib Abalagh: Saharawi student. The Moroccan police took him from Gulmim to Marrakesh because of an arrest warrant since 2007 for participating in demonstrations of the Sahrawi students at the University of Marrakech.
03 - Lahbib Younes: he was arrested and tortured by the police. Then they released him.
04 - Latif Lahbib Lamghayfri: arrested during the demonstration and tortured, after he was released.
05 - Bachir Lidauti: according to her testimony was arrested and tortured by a group of law enforcement intelligence Moroccan was later released.
06 - Najem Bouhadach: he was arrested and tortured, after he was released.
b) injured:
01 - Moustafa Laajimi 02 - Mohamed Talmoudi 03 – Khalihenna weld Lehsen 04 - Bachir Chtouki 05 - Mahmoud Burhim
c) raided houses: 01 - The family of Ahl Embarek house02 - The family of Ahl Lhayan house 03 - The family of Ahl Mohamed Darif house Also, the ODS 2nd Generation was told by his sources in the Moroccan prisons that two of the prisoners of conscience who are Lwali Amidan (sentenced to 05 years in prison firm is currently in Taroudanet's jail ) and Mahmou Hadi Kainnan (sentenced to 03 years in prison firm is currently in the Black prison in Laayoun city/Western Sahara) were summoned by the King's prosecutor of the court in Laayoun/Western Sahara to attend his trial. The charges, according to
the convocations (mistreating an officer who performs his work). The trial is scheduled for December 22nd, 2008. So the ODS 2nd Generation announces the next: A - regarding the death of two students and the brutal intervention against peaceful demonstrators: 01 - calls for the immediate release of all arrested during these demonstrations 02 - trying those responsible for the crime committed against students, as they are their positions, in a fair and equitable B - in terms of the summary trials against the two prisoners of conscience: The ODS 2nd Generation believes that such summary trials are not more than a way of pressuring the Saharawi prisoners of conscience in Moroccan prisons, and he called the Moroccan government to ratify all the summary trials of which were thousands of victims Sahrawi prisoners from the date of its invasion into the territory of Western Sahara.
The Preparatory Committee of saharawi defenders organization-the 2nd generation (ODS 2nd G)
Laayoun City/ Western Sahara On: December 17th 2008.

Organizacion de Defensores Saharauis 2° Generacion

منظمــــــــــة المدافــــعين الصـــحراويين الجــــــــــــــــيل الثــــــاني

ODS 2° Generacion

Morocco/Western Sahara: Irregularities in Sahrawi activist's trial


AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC STATEMENT

Index: MDE 29/016/2008
Date: 23 December 2008

Morocco/Western Sahara: Irregularities in Sahrawi activist's trial

Amnesty International is concerned about the recent sentencing of Sahrawi activist Mustafa Abdel Dayem, currently on hunger strike, to three years in prison on the basis of what he claims was a falsified record of statements he made in custody. The organization is also concerned that other aspects of Mustafa Abdel Dayem's trial proceedings did not meet international fair trial standards as he was denied the right to legal counsel during his appeal hearing. His case was submitted several days ago to Morocco's highest court, the Court of Cassation, which can review the alleged irregularities in his trial and, if confirmed, dismiss the ruling and send the case for retrial by a lower court.

Amnesty International fears that Mustafa Abdel Dayem's conviction may have been intended to punish him for his public support for the right to self-determination for the people of Western Sahara and for the Polisario Front, which calls for an independent state in Western Sahara and runs a self-proclaimed government-in-exile in refugee camps in south-western Algeria.

Mustafa Abdel Dayem, member of both the Assa-Zag Branch of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights and the Sahrawi Journalists' and Writers' Union, was arrested without a warrant on the evening of 27 October 2008 at his home in Assa in southern Morocco and taken to the Royal Gendarmerie Station in the same city. His arrest followed anti-government protests in Assa earlier that day by Sahrawi members of the population calling for the creation of employment opportunities and the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination. While Mustafa Abdel Dayem claims not to have participated in the protests, he admits to having lowered the Moroccan flag from the 'Alal Al-Fassi secondary school, where he worked as a security guard. He explains that his action was intended to show his support and solidarity with the demonstrators and his opposition to the intervention of law enforcement officers to break up the protests.

On 4 November 2008, the Court of First Instance of Guelmimsentenced Mustafa Abdel Dayem to a three-year prison term and a fine of 50,000 dirhams (approximately US$6,220) for offending the flag of the Kingdom of Morocco, rebelling and inciting an armed gathering, participating in the destruction of public property and participating in the contempt of public officials on duty. The sentence also included a prohibition on Mustafa Abdel Dayem from practicing teaching or working in any educational institution for a period of 10 years. Mustafa Abdel Dayem insists that the record of his questioning by the Royal Gendarmerie (procès-verbal), on which his conviction was largely based, was falsified -- attributing to him acts which he neither committed nor confessed to committing during his interrogation at the Royal Gendarmerie station in Assa. He argued that he had signed a procès-verbal following his questioning, whereas the one presented to the court was unsigned. During the hearing, his defence team walked out in protest at the court's refusal to call on the Royal Gendarmerie to produce as evidence the procès-verbal signed by Mustafa Abdel Dayem.

During his appeal trial, Mustafa Abdel Dayem was denied his right to be defended by legal counsel. According to members of his defence team, none of his lawyers was summoned to the appeal hearings which took place at the Court of Appeals of Agadir. Furthermore, Mustafa Abdel Dayem claims that his request to postpone the second hearing on 11 December until his lawyers were present or until he had had the opportunity to constitute a different defence team was rejected by the court, which confirmed the lower court's conviction later that day. On 19 December his lawyers submitted an appeal against the ruling to the Court of Cassation, which is mandated to review cases only on questions of procedure, but no date has yet been set for its consideration of the case.

Mustafa Abdel Dayem, currently incarcerated at Inzegane Prison in Agadir, has reportedly been on hunger strike since 13 December 2008 to protest the Court of First Instance's refusal to request as evidence his signed procès-verbal to the Royal Gendarmerie and the Court of Appeal's insistence on pronouncing its decision despite the absence of his defence team.. Seven of his family members in Assa, including his parents, who are elderly, started a hunger strike on the same day in solidarity with him, threatening to continue it until he is retried in a trial meeting international standards.

Background

Since 2005, dozens of Sahrawis have been charged with violent conduct and detained after being arrested during or after demonstrations against Moroccan rule in Western Sahara. Many of those arrested allege that they were tortured or otherwise ill-treated to force them to sign confessions, to intimidate them from protesting further or to punish them for demanding the right to self-determination for the people of Western Sahara. The Moroccan authorities continue to claim that those imprisoned were involved in criminal acts and are not being held for their views. Amnesty International has serious concerns about the fairness of their trials, including that some of the evidence was tainted on account of unexamined claims of torture or other ill-treatment and that defendants were not permitted to call defence witnesses

In October 2008, Yahya Mohamed ElHafed, member of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders, was found guilty of violent conduct and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment in connection with his participation in a protest in Tan Tan against Moroccan rule. Eight other defendants received sentences of up to four years in prison. Allegations that they were tortured during questioning were not investigated.

Aminatou Haidar subjected to harrassment at El Aaiun Airport by the Moroccan authorities


Aminatou Haidar, the prominent Sahrawi human rights defender who recently received The Robert Kennedy Human Rights Award and chairwoman of the CODESA, The Collective of the Sahrawi Human Rights Defender, based in El Aaiun, Western Sahara, was subjected to harassment at the airport of El Aaiun, as her plane landed, coming from the Canary Islands on Saturday 07th, 2008 at about 22:30.
Aminatou was harassed by a Moroccan customs officer who targetted her among dozens of passengers and was searching in her luggage, books and documents. Aminatou protested why these measures have been taken with her and not any other of the passengers coming in the same plane with her.
She understood why only when she saw a group of police officers in plain clothes and in uniform at the airport, who also followed the car that picked her and her relatives coming to the airport to accompany her home until she entered her house.
Aminatou's house and neighbourhood were being watched out by the police cars and agents, for fear that the Sahrawis would come to her house to congratulate her on receiving RFK Human Rights Award and her return after her awareness tours in Spain, France, the USA and South Africa.

The CODESA Exective Board,
El Aaiun, Western Sahara,
December 08th, 2008.

CODESA 10th December

El Aaiun, Western Sahara,
December 10th, 2008.

Press Release
The Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders, CODESA, celebrates The International Day for Human Rights, which coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights under the theme: "Freedom and Hope for the Prisoner and the Disappeared".
The aim is to express the CODESA's commitment to speak out against the human rights violations and to work for the release of the Sahrawi political prisoners. Yahya Mohamed Elhafed, the CODESA and the AMDH Tantan-section member, is the human rights defender sentenced to the longest detention period, 15 years imprisonment.
While commemorating the international day for human rights, the CODESA expresses its great concerns about the human rights situation in the Western Sahara, south of Morocco and at the Moroccan universities where the Sahrawi students continue their high studies. During the few years, but especially the year 2008, the Moroccan authorities intensified its repressive campaigns against the Sahrawis wherever they are. As a way of illustration, we will site a few examples here:
-Yahya Mohamed Elhafed, a human rights defender, already sacked out of work for his political position concerning the Western Sahara issue, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Four other Sahrawi youth from Tantan, south of Morocco, were sentenced to four years' imprisonment in Inzegane Prison, Morocco. Two of these youth (Najem Baouba and Mahmoud Elbarkawi) had been raped by glass bottles while in custody in Tantan police station before they were sent to court.
-Elmoustapha Abdedayem, a human rights defender and a "surveillant general" in a high school in Assa, south of Morocco, was arrested and sentenced in the first instance for three years' imprisonment, 50000 dhs fine (about 5000 US dollars) and ten years ban from work at any sector. Abdedayem had been arrested for removing the Moroccan flag from the high school he was working in as a protest against the fierce Moroccan oppression against Sahrawi demonstrations in Assa, calling for the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination in October 2008.
-In late November/early December 2008, the Moroccan authorities intensified its repression against the Sahrawi university students and the whole Sahrawi population, which ended in the killing of two Sahrawi students in Agadir, Morocco at a peaceful sit-in. On December 01st, the Sahrawi students were protesting against the travel agency SUPRATOUR for not keeping their promise to bring enough buses for the Sahrawi students in order to take them to their home cities. The police agents, surrounding the sit-in and controlling the situation, intervened after the coach ran over many of the demonstrators and murdered two students on the spot ( Elhoucine Abdessadeq Lekief, 20 years old, and Baba Khaya, 22 years old). A third student was sent to hospital in coma, and many others were seriously injured. Instead of arresting the bus driver, the police only intervened to beat and arrest the other Sahrawi students at the bus station.
-The human rights defenders in general and the CODESA members in particular, have increasingly been banned, from continuing their higher studies at the Moroccan universities while there is no single university in the whole Western Sahara for political reasons. Ali Salem Tamek and Alamine Sahel, both members of the CODESA, have not been allowed to study this year at university in Mohamedia and Agadir, Morocco for their advocacy for self-determination of the Western Sahara.
-The Moroccan states is still doing its best to keep the European Parliament commission from meeting the Sahrawi victims in the Western Sahara by deciding a prearranged schedule for them that excludes the Sahrawi human rights organisations.
- It is also still working hard together with other countries not to publish the report made by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights after their visit to Morocco and the Western Sahara between May 16th and 19th, 2006.The report insists that the main reason behind all the abuses in the Western Sahara is the violation of the right to self-determination.
-The Sahrawi human rights defender, El Haiba Emah, has been a target for the Moroccan police in Tantan, south of Morocco, represented by the police head officer in the city, Mustapha Kammour, known for his aggressiveness against the Sahrawis and responsible for the miscarriage of a Sahrawi woman, Ghlaina Barhah, in El Aaiun, Western Sahara by deliberately kicking her on the belly after urinating on her in the police station. Recently, El Haiba Elmah, a member of the CODESA and AMDH –Tantan section, was aggressively attacked by Mustapha Kammour, on December 2008 at the funeral of the Sahrawi student Elhoucine Abdesadeq Lektief, murdered at the university students sit-in in Agadir, Morocco.
-The Moroccan authorities are still continuing to ban the Sahrawi population fro peaceful protest (Sahrawi students at middle and high schools) Sahrawi workers at the Phosphate company controlled by the Moroccan state, university graduates and high diplomas holders as well as the other Sahrawi groups calling for their rights for work and organisation.
-The Sahrawi victims of landmines are still being neglected by the Moroccan authorities and the landmines still continue to kill the Sahrawi nomads on a daily basis.
-The CODESA and the other Sahrawi human rights organisations are still denied the right to organise their constitutive assembly and get their legal documents in order to work publicly.
In this context, the Collective of the Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders based in El Aaiun, Western Sahara
1. expresses its unconditioned solidarity with the victims of human rights abuses worldwide in general and in the Western Sahara in particular.
2.calls the Moroccan state to start a fair and transparent investigation in the murder of the two Sahrawi students, Elhoucine Lektief and Baba Khaya on December 01st, 2008 in Agadir, Morocco.
3. expresses its great concern about the intensifying of the human rights abuses by the Moroccan state against the Sahrawis (Sultana Khaya lost her eye while being tortured in a police van in Marrakesh, Morocco, Elouali Qadimi is still completely paralysed after being thrown from the fourth floor by the Moroccan police at a violent intervention against the Sahrawi students in Marrakech university campus).
4. charges the Moroccan state for the death of the Sahrawi students Baba Khaya and Elhoucine Lektief December 2008, and the other Sahrawis, Dadda Ali Hamma Ennafaa in July 2008 in Ait Mellou Prison, Sidha Abdelaziz in September 2007, Hamdi Lembarki in El Aaiun, on October30th, 2005, Abba Chaikh Lekhlifi in Tantan on December 03rd, 2005, Laamar Sidi Brahim, Mohamed Sidi Brahim and Taleb Sidi Menna murdered by a military lorry on the way to Dakhla, Western Sahara and the three Sahrawi common law prisoners Mohamed Boussetta, Ramdan Ellaithi and Hassan Haddi in 2004 and Slaiman Chwihi in 2004.
-calls all the international human rights organisations and associations to exert pressure on Morocco to respect the Sahrawis right to free expression, assembly peaceful protest and access to their passports and to disclose the fate of the Sahrawi disappeared.

The Executive Board of the CODESA,
El Aaiun, Western Sahara,
December 10th, 2008.

El Aaiun bajo el cerco de los cuerpos de inteligencia de Marruecos



Organización de Defensores Saharauis 2° Generación


Después del asesinato de dos estudiantes saharauis en la ciudad marroquí de Agadir, los alumnos saharauis en los colegios de El Aaiun decidieron hacer una huelga que consiste en abandonar las clases para condenar el crimen cometido contra sus compatriotas en las universidades marroquíes.
La iniciativa comenzó desde el colegio de LAMSALA. Las autoridades marroquíes intervinieron de manera brutal contra los alumnos. Los lesionados entre las filas de los alumnos alcanzaron una cifra muy elevada.
En la noche del miércoles fueron detenidos algunos de los alumnos, entre ellos Mohamed Ahl Lmahdi, que según su testimonio, fue detenido por un grupo de policías, quienes le llevaron en una furgoneta hacia la comisaría principal en El Aaiun.
Ahí estuvo hasta las 04h de la madrugada del día siguiente. Lo torturaron durante toda la noche por participar en las manifestaciones pacificas. Actualmente se encuentra en estado muy grave en la casa de su familia.
La represión de las autoridades de Marruecos no se limitó en detener y torturar los alumnos. Entraron en casas de familias saharauis y detuvieron sus hijos.
Las casas de algunos defensores de Derechos Humanos fueron registradas (caso de Ahmed Sbai), otros se buscan (caso de Mohamed Mayara) y el resto de los defensores de Derechos Humanos se encuentran bajo vigilancia continua.
El Aaiun / Sahara Occidental. 04 / 12 / 2008

La répression continue dans les villes du Sahara Occidental

04 déc 2008
Lettre d'information ASVDH

Suite au décès de deux étudiants sahraouis à Agadir (sud du Maroc), des manifestations de soutien et de dénonciation du crime ont été organisé dans différentes universités du Maroc, comme dans les villes du Sahara Occidental.


Ainsi, hier mercredi 3 décembre 2008, une manifestation a été à El-Ayoune. Les forces de répression marocaines ont intervenu violement et ont violé la maison du membre du bureau exécutif de l’ASVDH, Mr. Ahmed SBAI. Ce dernier et le jeune sahraoui, Mr. Hassanna Alia, sont actuellement recherchés par la police alors que l’étudiant sahraoui et ancien détenu politique, Mr. Mohamed Ali ANDOUR, a été arrêté aujourd’hui, jeudi 4 décembre 2008.
Egalement, Mr. Ihssan ALBAR a été arrêté hier et relâché ce matin.

Mort de deux étudiants sahraouis et deux autre dans un état critique

02 déc 2008
Lettre d'information ASVDH

Deux étudiants sahraouis ont perdu leur vie, hier lundi 1 décembre 2008, alors que deux autres se trouvent dans un état critique à l’hôpital Hassan II à agadir.
Au moment où les étudiants sahraouis del’université Ibn Zohr organisaient un sit-in devant la gare routière d’Agadir, pour réclamer des bus supplémentaires qui les transportera vers les villes du Sahara Occidental à l’occasion de la fête d’Al-id Al-Adha, un conducteur d’un bus heurté les manifestants et en a tué deux alors que deux autres se trouvent dans un état critique.

Les deux morts sont Mr. Baba Khayya (22 ans et étudiant en troisième année, sciences économiques) et Mr. Lahoucine Lekteif (20 ans et étudiant en première année, sciences sociales. Les deux cas critiques sont, Mr. Embarek Belkadi qui est touours en coma àl’hôpital avec de graves blessures et Mr. Elkharrachi Abbouh. D’autres étudiants ont été également blessé. Il s’agit de Mr. Bachir Alismaili, Mr. Embarek Lehmadi, Mr. Abdessalam Achtouki et Mr. Sidi Mohamed Ergueibi