[Infos] Fwd: Huelga de hambre indefinida en la cárcel de El Aiún

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> Enviamos una informacion de una lista noruega de
> noticias sobre el sahara
> la info es de la radio argelina
> os ponemos en antecedentes, hay 131 detenidos
> saharauis en la carcel negra de El-Aaiun que denuncian
> sus terribles condiciones de encarcelamiento (son
> presos politicos aunque en marruecos se diga por parte
> de alguno de sus "ministros" que no hay presos
> politicos),y tambien piden que se permita al pueblo
> saharaui ejercer su derecho a la autodeterminación,
> entre otras cosas
> 
> llevan en huelga de hambre desde el 24 de diciembre,
> asiq imaginad como se encuentran.
> 
> os pedimos tambien info sobre si se esta organizando
> alguna campaña a favor de estas personas. sabemos q
> varias organizaciones internacionales estan intentando
> interceder pero queremos saber si a nuestro nivel
> podemos hacer algo
> 
> la informacion q os mandamos esta en ingles pero mas o
> menos se puede entender el sentido
> 
> 
> 
> Western Saharan foreign minister says over 131
> prisoners on hunger
> strike
> 
> BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
> Jan 11, 2002
> 
> Text of report by Algerian radio on 11 January
> 
> The Saharan detainees who have staged a hunger strike
> in the occupied 
> town
> of Laayoune are facing a tragic situation. This has
> prompted the 
> Polisario
> Front to appeal to the international community to
> intercede with the
> Moroccan authorities in order to put an end to this
> tragedy. Our 
> colleague
> Zakia Latad asked the Saharan foreign minister
> [Mohamed Salem Salek]
> whether the international community had responded to
> this appeal. This 
> was
> this reply:
> 
> [Ould Salek - recording] We are now waiting after we
> informed the UN 
> about
> the practices adopted by Morocco against our citizens
> in the occupied
> areas where there has been a wave of arrests for the
> past few years.
> Currently, in the occupied town of Laayoune, over 131
> prisoners held in
> Lakhal Prison, in Laayoune, have been on a hunger
> strike since 24
> December.
> 
> As I have already said, we have informed the Security
> Council, Mr James
> Baker and the UN secretary-general about this and
> President Mohamed
> Abdelaziz has written to them about this matter. We
> have also written 
> to
> all the humanitarian organizations in the world,
> especially in Europe 
> and
> to a number of parties, and political and
> parliamentary institutions
> throughout the world.
> 
> We would like to say that the time has come for the
> international
> community to assume its responsibility, particularly
> the UN
> mission in the Western Sahara [Minurso] which is
> present there. Morocco 
> is
> openly and publicly committing unlawful human rights
> violations in the
> Western Sahara and is oppressing and imprisoning a
> large number of
> Saharans in all the towns, such as Smara, Laayoune,
> Dakhla and 
> Boujdour,
> and also in the areas where Saharans live, be it in
> southern Morocco or
> other areas.
> 
> We would like a strong condemnation of these practices
> and we would 
> like
> the international community to assume its
> responsibility. We would also
> like to see the siege imposed on the Saharans in the
> occupied areas
> lifted. How could we possibly accept the existence of
> a wall, like the
> Berlin Wall, which is dividing the Saharan [Arab
> Democratic] Republic 
> and
> the Western Sahara? This is why the international
> community must assume
> its responsibility. We will continue our struggle for
> all the rights of
> our people.
> 
> Source: Algerian radio, Algiers, in Arabic 0600 gmt 11
> Jan 02
> 
> 
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