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

Report of some of the last human rights violations committed by the Moroccan State against Saharawi populations in the occupied zones of the Western Sahara and inside Morocco*

Malainin Lakhal
S.G Saharawi Journalists' and Writers' Union (UPES)
Saharawi Refugee Camps

 

Following information I received from friends in the occupied territories, from some Saharawi human rights activists and from other sources in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, south of Morocco and in Moroccan universities, I was able to gather the following information, which are incomplete and from which many information I dropped because of the lack of details.

1. Saharawi political prisoners lately released

26-03-2006- The Moroccan colonial authorities released 30 Saharawi political prisoners, while another 35 Saharawi political prisoners are still under detention to which new human rights activists were added, because lately arrested and still maintained under detention (cases of Mrs. Djimi El Ghalia, and her husband, Mr. Dah Moustapha Dafa, both ex-victims of forced disappearance and active human rights defenders).

- This is the list of the Saharawi political prisoners released by the Moroccan authorities in he 25 th and 26th of March in the El Aaiun and in other Moroccan prisons:

01. NUMRIA BRAHIM (Black prison in El Aaiún) - Human rights activist
02. MUTAWAKIL MOHAMED - Human rights activist
03. HOSSEIN LIDRI - Human rights activist
04. LARBI MESUD - Human rights activist
05. HMAD HAMMAD - Human rights activist
06. BUGARFA ABDERRAHMAN - Human rights activist
07. HAMMADI ELKARCHA
08. ALWAT SIDI MOHAMED
09. BACHIR YAYA
10. NDUR HOSSEIN
11. NAFAA BUCHAMA
12. LAMIN BADDA
13. MAHMUD MUSTAFA HADAD
14. MUSAUI SIDAHMED
15. CHTEIUI MAHYUB
16. YENHI LEJLIFA
17. LEHUEIDI MAHMUD
18. ELWALI AMAIDAN
19. ISMAILI HAMMADA
20. MOHAMED BAHIYA RACHIDI
21. OTMANI EL-LUD EMMAN
22. BAL-LA SIDI MOHAMED
23. BOUGREIN MOHAMED EL MEHDI (Local prison in Smara)
24. LEKHFAUNI ABDALAHI (Central prison in Kenitra)
25. AGDADI ALI (Local prison in Marrakech)
26. DAAGUI MOHAMED (Local prison in Kalaat Sraghna)
27. BABA ELARABI (Local prison in Ait Mellul)
28. ELHAFED TAUBALI
29. MOHAMED MAHMUD ELFAK
30. ABDELAZIZ DAY

2. Reactions

The Saharawi populations in the different Saharawi occupied cities received the prisoners with demonstrations, raising Saharawi flags and asking for the immediate release of the other 35 still imprisoned political prisoners, and asking for their right to self6determination and independence.

Moroccan police intervened, using excessive force against the demonstrators. Reports so far talks about more than 100 persons arrested, most of them were tortured. A woman aborted.

2.1. Smara [Pictures ]
26-03-2006 (Smara- Occupied zones of the Western Sahara )
Saharawi political prisoner, Othmani El-loud Emman, was received by a demonstration, in which the flags of the Saharawi Republic were raised by the Saharawi citizens. Moroccan forces violently intervened to disperse demonstrators. The released detainee and his mother were tortured by police agents and their house ransacked.

Confrontations broke in Smara since yesterday ( 26-03-2006) at 20.00GMT until today afternoon.

List of Saharawi citizens arrested and for the most cases tortured in the occupied city of Smara:

01 -FATMA ZAHRA BRAHIM BRAIKA
02 BAINAN ABDOU OULD BACHIR
03 SALKA ABDOU OULD BACHIR
04 NAOUCHA ALI BRAHIM
05 MONNINA SIDI EMANN
06 WADNOUNI FATMA
07 AFIF ALI (seriously injured and transferred to El Aaiún)
08 NAZIHA ANDALA TANJI (seriously injured and aborted according to eyewitneeses, transered to El Aaiún)
09 AFIFI AL-LAL
10 LAILA MOUSTAFA FAL
11 KALTHOUM LEHSEN AADI
12 YAKOUTA LEHSEN AADI
13 THAOURIA OMAR TAHER
14 MARIAYAM IYICH
15 TAHANI SALAMA BOUJEMAA
16 NAJAH SALAMA BOUJEMAA
17 INTISAR SALAMA BOUJEMAA
18 MAHMOUD MOHAMED LEKHRIF
19 LEAJELA HASSAN BAHIYA
20 MOUNINA SAID BOY
21 AMINETOU LIMAM KHATRI BABOUZEID
22 AGHAILA LEHSEN OMAR
23 MOHAMED FADEL MOHAMED SALEM HADI
24 FADEILI SALAMA HAIMEDAHA
25 MLEWIHA BREIKA
26 AHMED MOUSAOUI
27 ZOUGHAM GHALI
28 ZOUGHAM ELWALI
29 GHLANA MOULAY AHMED MOHAMED SALEM
30 MOHAMED LAMIN MOULAY AHMED MOHAMED SALEM
31 METOU ALI MAATI
32 MOUSAOUI KHATRI
33 FATIMETOU ABEID MOULANA
34 MARIYAM ABEID MOULANA
35 HOURIYA ABEID MOULANA
36 NTEITICHY YOUSEF
37 NAFAA NAOUCHA
38 SAIFOU ZERGUI
39 WALI ZAZ BOUHALI
40 MOUHIN BRAHIM
41 BIYADILAH BRAHIM
42 AMIN NAFAA
43 HAYAT HAJ MOULAY AHMED
44 HAIMOUDA ELBAREK
45 NAHA SALKI
46 KAROUM TEKBER
47 SALKA BOICHER
48 TWEIKH BACHIR ELHOSSEIN
49 TWEIKH MOHAMED SALEM ELHOSSEIN
50 BRAHIM ABDI BACHIR
51 WAFA KHALIL
52 DAOUDI BABOUZAID
53 MOUJAHID SIDI MOHAMED
54 CHERIF MAHAYOUB BACHIR FADLI
55 SALKA ELWAFI
56 HLEISA MERZOUG
57 BAIBA ALI MAATI
58 ISMAILI AZIZA KHATRI BACHIR
59 WAHMANI SALKA
60 FATIMETOU SAIDI
61 NADIR MARIYAM
62 BOUKHERS ENGUIA
63 BASIR RAGUEB
64 ISMAILI MAHMOUD
65 LALTOU DAHA
66 ISMAILI NAJAH
67 NAINNA SAIDI
68 KHADIJETOU DAGHCH
69 MTEITOU ALI
70 ABDELAHI MOULAY AHMED MOHAMED SALEM
71 SOUKEINA MOULAY AHMED MOHAMED SALEM
72 AZIZ MOHAMED SALEM
73 SOUADOU BAIBA
74 TANJI BRAHIM HAMOUDI
75 GHALI ESSAD BAHAHA
76 NAOUCHA ALI LATRACH
77 LABEIDI HMEIM
78 LEBSIR SALLAHA
79 ELKHALIL ZREIBIA
80 MOKHTAR AHMEDOU KOWRI
81 MALAININ MOKHTAR
82 GHALI SALAMA JAMEAA
83 MOHAMED LAMIN ALIAT LATRACH
84 SID BRAHIM LEBRAS
85 MOHAMED SALEM MOHAMED YESLEM
86 BACHIR MOHAMED LAMIN SID ELARBI
87 GHALI ALI ELWALI
88 OTHMAN ALIYAT LATRACH
89 CHEIKH DADAH BOUMRAH
90 SOUADOU MOHAMED ALI
91 GABBAL BANAHI DAHA
92  AZIZA KHARTI BACHIR
93 MARYAM MOHAMED HMEDNAH
94 FAKA MOHAMED LEBDADI
95 KHADIJETOU MOHAMD ELAABD
96 LAILA MOUSTAFA FAL
97 MARIYAM BACHIR AABEID
98 AMINETOU BACHIR AABEID
99 SALOUKA SIDAHMED IAAICH
100 ELAAZA MOHAMED
101 TARBA OMAR TAHER
102 AZEIZA SALLAMI HAMDI
103 SOUKEINA MOULAY AHMED HAMDI
104 FAITAM MNEISIR
105 NEAMA TAHER LANSAR
106 TESLEM TANJI
107 TAOUFA ABEIRI
108 FATAM NAJEM
109 FAITAM IYICH
110 AZEIZA IYICH
111 HAFED BAHIYA
112 TENWAKA DAOUDI
113 ALOUMRI MOHAMED
114 MANKOUR HAMADI
115 BALAH MOHAMED YESLEM
116 MOHAMED SALEM MOHAMED YESLEM
117 ALBAHAN LAABEIDI
118 MAKKAOUI ABDELHADI
120 ZAIDAN AMAYER
121 FALI MOHAMED
122 NAFAA OTHMAN
123 ALHAMDI AMIN
124 ALMOUKHTAR LEHMAMI
125 BARAKAT AAHDI
126 FADLI KARROUM (seriously injured and arrested)
127 OUMESSAAD MAHMOUD KAROUM (seriously injured and arrested)
128 ERRAGUEB MOUSTAPHA BRAHIM (seriously injured and arrested)
129 MOINA SAID BABA (seriously injured and arrested)
130 MAOUGAF SAID BABA (seriously injured and arrested)
131 ZOUENA MARHBA (seriously injured and arrested)
132 MONINA MHAMED (seriously injured and arrested)
133 LALLA MOHAMED SALEM
134 SUELMA MOHAMED SALEM
135 LAAJAILA KHLAILI LBACHIR
136 CHBEIKA CHARRAMHA
137 SID BRAHIM AABDI
138 NAFAAI BREIKA ZERGOU

Ransacked houses:

Family of the released political prisoner Othman Elloud
Family of Ahmed Ould Mohamed Salem
Family of Fadli ould Karoum
Family of Ahmed Ould Mohamed Salem Ould Hamma.
Family of Boulah Said Baiba
Family of Dahmi Abeid Moulana
Family of Labbat Mousa
Family of Mohamed Hmednah
Family of Bachir Abeid
Garage of the Saharawi citizen Hosein Lehbib Mneisir

20/03/2006

10 persons at least were wounded and 11 houses ransacked by the Moroccan police on Monday, in the occupied city of Smara, after demonstrations organised by the Saharawi population to express their rejection of the visit of Mohamed VI to the Western Sahara.

Many Saharawi women were wounded during these confrontations, including:

01 Khadijetou Hnini,
02 Mariem Seylouk Breika,
03 Leila Moustapha,
04 Mounina Mohamed,
05 Mariem Aloua,
06 Khadijetou Mohamed Al Abd,
07 Zeinabou Oumar,
08 Benina Bachiri
09 Khirou

The Moroccan colonial forces also arrested the Saharawi citizen, Mrs. Aziza Tanji, who was savagely tortured before she was abandoned few hours later in the middle of a street to be rescued by some Saharawis.

Since last week the more than 8 Saharawi families in the occupied city of Smara were put under pressures, by the Moroccan colonial authorities, who deprived them of some facilities to get basic food and needs, as a reprisal against them for having participated to demonstrations against the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara.

The families are:

01 The family of Biri Taofa,
02 The family of Inguia Bujers,
03 The family of Igleila Mint Hasni,
04 The family of AlHamdi Abdella,
05 The family of Mohamed Meilad Sluk,
06 The family of Amru BalYazid,
07 The family of AlMadi Tfarah,
08 The family of Gaa Fatimetu.

2.2. In the occupied city of Dakhla

In the occupied cities of Dakhla, the Saharawi citizens organised many demonstrations in protest against the visit of the Moroccan king to the occupied cities of the Western Sahara. Demonstrations are usually followed by violent interventions of police an military forces and demonstrators are casually wounded, most of the time, names are not available partly because the victims prefer to keep anonymity but sometimes because the Saharawi human rights activists are themselves in trouble and can not achieve their duty appropriately.

26-03-2006
A demonstration violently oppressed in Dakhla and the following citizens were arrested:

01 Ahjebouha Sidi Heiba
02  Mr. Bombari Salek

2.3. In the occupied city of El Aaiun

25/03/2006
Nine Saharawi citizens, including the vice-President of the Saharawi Association of the victims of the Flagrant human rights violations committed by Morocco (ASVDHEM), and ex-political disappeared, Mrs. Djimi el Ghalia, were arrested on Friday the 24th of March in El Aaiun, after demonstrations rejecting the visit of the Moroccan king to the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, indicated a press release publicised by the Association the same day.

01 Mrs. Djimi El Ghalia, also a member of the Committee of the Families of the Disappeareds, was arrested in company of her husband,
02 Mr. Dah Moustapha Dafa, ex-political prisoner,

7 other Saharawi citizens were arrested during these demonstrations, it was indicated, namely

03 Jamal Al housseini,
04 Jenhaoui Habibou Allah,
05 Tounsi Cheikh,
06 Mansour Darif,
07 Oumar Bailal,
08 Abdelaghani Kabdana,
09 Blal Saghri.

20/03/2006
5 persons, at least, were arrested on Monday in the occupied city of El Aaiun , after demonstrations rejecting the visit of Mohamed VI to the Western Sahara and advocating the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation and the Saharawi people's right to self-determination and independence.

The Moroccan forces of occupation, which intervened violently to disperse the demonstrators, arrested 5 Saharawi citizens:

01 Vaissal Mohamed Laroussi,
02 Maalainin Lekhliphi,
03  Sleima El Jarah,
04  Mohamed Bouzeid
05 Haiba Mohamed Mahmoud (ex-political detainee) who was conducted to an unknown destination, the same source stressed.

2.4. In the occupied city of Boujdour

25/03/2006
Two Saharawi citizens, (01)- Mohamed Mohamedou and (02)- Mariem Salek were arrested on Friday the 24th of March by the Moroccan forces, who proceeded to the ransacking of the house of the first in reaction to demonstrations rejecting the visit of Mohamed VI in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.

3 other Saharawi houses, especially of: Mariem Khaya, Moulimnine Khaya, and Sultana Khaya, which are still put under close surveillance of the different Moroccan colonial corpses of repression, were ransacked by police agents.

Reliable sources from different Moroccan universities reported demonstrations and confrontations between Saharawi students and Moroccan authorities. Students were protesting against the visit undertaken by the Moroccan king to their country, against the will of the Saharawi people.

3. University of Agadir

15/03/2006
In the University of Agadir, the confrontations were very serious, because the Moroccan secret services with the complicity of the director of the university campus enrolled some Moroccan civilians (pretending to be students, and maybe there are some Moroccan students among them) and attacked the Saharawi students demonstrations, and rooms.

6 Saharawi students, at least, were wounded and 8 others arrested in Agadir during confrontations on Wednesday the 15 th of March, evening between the Saharawi students and militias composed of Moroccan students under the orders of the Moroccan secret services and police

The list of the wounded students:

01 Fita Hassana,
02  Hababa Mahfud,
03  Brahim Libsir,
04  Lemzudi Azman,
05  Ramdan Alezri
06 Bufarion Saleh,

8 students were arrested:

01 El Filali Mahmud,
02 El Kenti Sidi Amar,
03 Anzula Mahid,
04 Emheimar Hamadi,
05 El Geilani AbdelWahab,
06 Maumed Mohamed,
07 Alhudeibi Ahmed
08 Sidi Buia Latif.

4. Conclusions:

5. This is an update of the list of the Saharawi Political Prisoners still detained in the Moroccan prisons (28/03/2006):

01. ALI SALEM TAMEK -- 10 meses
02. BRAHIM DAHAN
03. SAYELI SIDI ABDAL-LA MEKI
04. HASSANNA ELHAIRACH -- 6 years
05. BOUAMOUD MOHAMED SALEM -- 3 years
06. DAOUD OMAR -- 3 years
07. AHMED MAHMUD HADI ELKAINNAN (arrested in 5/5/2003 -- 12 years)
08. HADI CHEIF AHMED FAL / 05-07-2003 -- 3 years and 6 months)
09. HASSANNA ELMEKI -- 20 years
10. TAHLIL MOHAMED -- 3 years
11. BOUDDA MHAMED BOUDDA
12. LABRAS MUSTAFA HOSSEIN EMBAREK
13. LABRAS BRAHIM MOHAMED MAHYUB
14. LUCHAA LEHSSEN BAHIYA
15. ATHMAN DAH ATNAKHA
16. MACHKOUR BACHIR
17. TARGUI MAELAININ AHMED MOHAMED
18. ECHAIN MOHAMED HASSAN EMBOIRIK
19. AIT ABEILOU BRAHIM HOSSEIN EMBAREK
20. INYURNI BAHA MOHAMED SAILAMOU
21. LEGHZAL TAHER MOHAMED HAMOU
22. AMAIDAN CHEIJ BACHIR MAULUD
23. HADDI MAULUD ALIYEN LEHBIB
24. LANSARI MOHAMED SALEM AHMED ELABD
25. ISMAILI MOHAMED EMBAREK
26. ERGUIBI SALEH
27. ALAMIN SAHEL
28. RGUIBI KHLIFA
29. DREIWICH BACHIR
30. CHEGRAOUI BACHIR
31. HAMDI LABIAD
32. MOUSTAFA LEKRIMI
33. HAFIDI ABDELMOULA HAFED
34. BEN JALOUN MOKHTAR -- 1 year
35. HASSAN ABDELAHI -- 1 year
36. TANJI EDDAHA
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