President of the State Coordinating Association of Friendship and Solidarity with the Saharawi people (CEAS-Sahara), José Taboada, warned that the hunger strike have maintained for weeks 60 Saharawi political prisoners in Morocco could end up "a tragedy" and made an "urgent appeal" to the international community, including the English Government to prevent this from happening.
According to Taboada, for weeks 60 Saharawi political prisoners "are conducting a hunger strike to demand basic rights and legitimate collected in all international standards of treatment of prisoners." "The health of some of these political prisoners is dramatic and their lives are in serious danger," warned in a statement released by CEAS.
According to the association pro-Sahrawi, these people are deprived of their liberty for the sole reason to require Morocco to accept the right of self-determination for the Saharawi people, so they made an "urgent appeal" to avoid a tragedy that can pass unnoticed by the international community.
Thus, the coordinator made "an appeal to the UN secretary general (Ban Ki Moon), associations that ensure respect for human rights, political parties, trade unions, the general public, to denounce systematic violations of Human Rights Morocco against the Saharawi people exercise and require the cessation of the repression. "
In the case of the English Government asked to "take, clearly and unambiguous, the responsibility of the Saharawi people and bet in the Sahara for international legality and justice of peoples, and has bet on other occasions in other conflicts and demands to Morocco to put an end to the repressive machinery who has carried for more than thirty years. "
Finally, CEAS demands" the immediate release of all Saharawi political prisoners, including Brahim Sabar, Secretary General of the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Human Rights in the Sahara Western (ASVDH) "and urges" the Moroccan government to fulfill its international commitments and obligations, so that the Saharan people to choose freely their future through a free self-determination referendum, transparent and democratic. "
Just today, the ASVDH in a statement on the situation in which prisoners are in the" twenty-third day of hunger strike. "According to the association The four prisoners who had been transferred on March 14 at a hospital because of his critical health condition, including Sabbar, "returned yesterday to the Black Prison" in Laayoune.
addition, three lawyers yesterday were able to visit Saharawi political prisoners on hunger strike in that prison, after they could not visit them during their stay in the hospital, and they asked to put down the strike to save their lives, the statement said. According to reports the ASVDH
, most of the strikers have health problems like stomach pain, kidney problems and liver problems and stress, among others. The prisoners have been in the Black Prison hunger strike since 25 February, while another carried out a strike in the prison of Salé since 20 that month. In addition, other scattered by other prisoners in Moroccan prisons began a similar protest on 10 March.
According to Taboada, for weeks 60 Saharawi political prisoners "are conducting a hunger strike to demand basic rights and legitimate collected in all international standards of treatment of prisoners." "The health of some of these political prisoners is dramatic and their lives are in serious danger," warned in a statement released by CEAS.
According to the association pro-Sahrawi, these people are deprived of their liberty for the sole reason to require Morocco to accept the right of self-determination for the Saharawi people, so they made an "urgent appeal" to avoid a tragedy that can pass unnoticed by the international community.
Thus, the coordinator made "an appeal to the UN secretary general (Ban Ki Moon), associations that ensure respect for human rights, political parties, trade unions, the general public, to denounce systematic violations of Human Rights Morocco against the Saharawi people exercise and require the cessation of the repression. "
In the case of the English Government asked to "take, clearly and unambiguous, the responsibility of the Saharawi people and bet in the Sahara for international legality and justice of peoples, and has bet on other occasions in other conflicts and demands to Morocco to put an end to the repressive machinery who has carried for more than thirty years. "
Finally, CEAS demands" the immediate release of all Saharawi political prisoners, including Brahim Sabar, Secretary General of the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Human Rights in the Sahara Western (ASVDH) "and urges" the Moroccan government to fulfill its international commitments and obligations, so that the Saharan people to choose freely their future through a free self-determination referendum, transparent and democratic. "
Just today, the ASVDH in a statement on the situation in which prisoners are in the" twenty-third day of hunger strike. "According to the association The four prisoners who had been transferred on March 14 at a hospital because of his critical health condition, including Sabbar, "returned yesterday to the Black Prison" in Laayoune.
addition, three lawyers yesterday were able to visit Saharawi political prisoners on hunger strike in that prison, after they could not visit them during their stay in the hospital, and they asked to put down the strike to save their lives, the statement said. According to reports the ASVDH
, most of the strikers have health problems like stomach pain, kidney problems and liver problems and stress, among others. The prisoners have been in the Black Prison hunger strike since 25 February, while another carried out a strike in the prison of Salé since 20 that month. In addition, other scattered by other prisoners in Moroccan prisons began a similar protest on 10 March.
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