Révolte des Sahraouis - Revolt of the Saharawis - Revuelta de los Saharauis

PRESS RELEASE

While the Moroccan repressive services are increasing their old/new repressive policy and after the abduction of five other Sahrawi human rights activists from their own homes on Thursday, July 20, 2005. Their names are:

• Mohamed Elmoutaouakil, a former political prisoner and member of the Executive Bureau of the Forum for Truth and justice.
• Mohamed Fadel Gaoudi, a former political prisoner and member of the National Council of the Forum for Truth and justice.
• Brahim Noumria, a former disappeared, an active member in several human rights committees and an establishing member of the dissolved Sahara Branch of the Forum for Truth and Justice.
• Lidri Elhoucine, an establishing member of the dissolved Sahara Branch of the Forum for Truth and Justice and an ex-deportee to Morocco.
• Larbi Massaoud, a former political of conscience who was adopted by Amnesty International,

The Sahrawi human rights activists, while noticing the Moroccan authorities repression to the peaceful protest demonstrations that the Sahrawi civilians organize in the Sahrawi regions calling for the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination and the release of all the Sahrawi political prisoners, they denonuce these flagrant violations that break all the international human rights treaties.

As the Moroccan authorities are responsible for what resulted from its violent intervention against the innocent Sahrawi civilians such as women's ill-treatment, the looting of houses, property stealing and the humiliation of the elderly, the Sahrawi human rights activists call :

• the Moroccan state to stop their bleeding acts in the Sahrawi cities, Dakhla, El Ayun, Assa and the others.
• for the immediate qnd unditioned release of all the Sahrawi political prisoners.
• the international human rights organisations and all the peace-lovers to exert pressure on the Moroccan state in order to stop the flagrant violations of human rights that the defenceless Sahrawi people are subjected to and the intervention in order to release all the Sahrawi political prisoners.
• -for the coming of an international committee to investigate in the illegal and inhuman practices that the Moroccan authorities perpetrate in the Western Sahara.

The Sahrawi Human Rights Activists
El Ayun, Western Sahara,
Thursday, July 21, 2005.

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