On 10.11.09 The Moroccan police stormed Ibn Zohr University in Agadir/Morocco, after a students protest.
The students Elbachir Al Ismaili and Yousef Ebraik were arrested. They spent 72 hours under cruel interrogations and mistreatment by the police before they were sent to the prison of Inzegan, Agadir.
According to the Moroccan authorities their tial is going to be on the 19.11.09
Tuesday 10.11.2009 05:00 pm
Saharawi students at Ibn Zohr University of Agadir/Morocco, were staging a peaceful demonstration demanding their rights at the University. The Moroccan police stormed the University in response.
Two Saharawi students were arrested El bachir Al Ismaili and Moulud ben Taleb. Many other students were injured.
The Moroccan authorities on Wednesday morning stormed the houses of the students Ramdan Lazaar and Younes Ebraik they were arrested.
According to the students testemonies, the police are now surrounding the University campus and the neighbourhoods of “Dakhla”, “Assalam” and “Alhuda” where mmostly Saharawi students live.
The Saharawi student Mohamed Berkan, 23years old, studing at Ibn Zohr University in Agadir/Morocco was arrested on 16.09.2009 for participating in peaceful demonstrations in “Maatalla” neighbourhood, El Aaiun/Western Sahara. He was serioudly injured, the police after detened him in one of the houses at the same neighborhoo, they threw him from the roof of the house to the ground. Despite his health situation he was sent directly to the “black prison”in El Aaiun.
The other two political prisoners whom were going on the Hunger strike are: Bachri ben Taleb and Cheikh Amidan.
They started the Hunger strike last October protesting against the cruel treatment they received by the administration and the gardians at the Black prison. Also they were demanding the right of medical care especially for the case of the student Mohamed Berkan and the right to family visits.
They stopped their stike on Friday 6th, because of their seriouse health situation after 33 days of Hunger with no response to their demands.
02.11.2009
The court in Casablance/Morocco, sentenced the two Saharawi students Baba Ali Atoumi and Abdulah Dihani to one year imprisonment.
The two Saharawi students were arrested on 28.10.2009 in a station in Casablanca. The reason of their arrest is that one of the students had some Saharawi revolution songs on his mobile phone, what led a Moroccan citizen to call the police, the students therefore were occused of insulting The Moroccan sacred doctrines.
20/09/2009
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The court of first instance in the occupied city of El Aaiun sentenced the Saharawi student and prisoner of conscience, Abderahman Ezzeouani, to two months suspended imprisonment for his opinions in favour of the independence of Western Sahara, according to CODESA reports. Abderahman Ezzeouani was arrested on September 13th in Trfaya city (100 Km North El Aaiun) and transferred to the capital of Western Sahara (El Aaiun) to be charged for “insulting the sacred symbols of Morocco”. Abderahman Ezzeouani is a -3rd year Frensh Litterature- student at the University in Rabat, Morocco. The day of his trial, the Moroccan authorities sealed the tribunal in El Aaiun, preventing people, ex-political prisoners and human rights defenders from attending this iniquitous trial. Abderrahman Ezzeouani, denounced the brutality and mistreatment he received by the Gendarmerie in Tarfaya city and all along the way to El Aaiun during his transfer. During the trial he considered that he was sentenced for his contribution to the peaceful struggle of his people for a free homeland. |
03/09/2009
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The young Saharawi student, Razouk Choummad (20), affirmed on Wednesday that he has been victim to abduction and torture for about five hours by the same Moroccan police agent that tortured his friend, Nguia El Haouassi, in the outskirts of the city . |
05/08/2009
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Moroccan authorities didn’t allow six Saharawi youth to take a flight to London, where they were expected to participate to a youth encounter and dialogue with their Moroccan counterparts. The six Saharawi youngsters, three girls and three boys, were stopped by police in the very moment when they reached the airport. The police intimidated them, but they refused to leave before the authorities give them a reason why they are banned from the right to travel. The youngsters, it should be stressed are invited by a British based organization, Talk Together, which is organizing an encounter on Western Sahara conflict was planning to bring together 10 students from Morocco, 10 from the refugee camps and 10 from the occupied city of El Aaiun (the capital of Western Sahara). A further 10 students from Britain, Norway and other neutral countries, will also take part. This encounter was supposed to start today. The Saharawi students from the refugee camps were able to travel freely to participate, while their brothers from the occupied zones and from Morocco couldn’t because of the Moroccan regime opposition to any kind of open dialogue. Contacted by UPES, the six Saharawi students said they will start a hunger strike in the airport, and refuse to leave it until the Moroccan authorities allow them to fly to their destination, or give them a legal reason of this restriction to their right to movement and expression. Talk Together takes young people from either side of an ongoing conflict and challenges them to generate new ways forward. The project confronts prejudice, fosters understanding, finds new possible solutions, stimulates wider public debate and gives the participants the educational experience of a lifetime. The six Saharawi youth are now sealed by police in the airport, and may well be ill-treated and arrested if the organization that invited them doesn’t intervene to put pressures on the Moroccan authorities to prevent any possible abuse. Source: United Saharawi Journalists and Writers www.upes.org |
27.09.2009
Rabab Amidane receives the Student Peace Prize.The Student Peace Prize Ceremony honoured this year’s laureate Rabab Amidane, 23 years old, from occupied Western Sahara.
Amidane is a Sahrawi student and a human rights activist, fighting for freedom for Western Sahara. She has worked to highlight the violations of human rights exposed to the Sahrawis by the Moroccan government. Amidane has experienced the oppression herself, being exposed to torture, discrimination and being arrested.
-I feel very humble standing here before you tonight, Amidane says as she receives the award. -But I am only one of many Sahrawis who are fighting for human rights in Western Sahara. Therefore I dedicate this Prize to all the Sahrawis and all the young students. Amidane shows the audience some moving pictures of her Sahrawi friends that have been exposed to violations by the Moroccan government. Amidane says that the Student Peace Prize makes it possible for her to speak their cause. -Thank you so much Norway, Amidane says. -I hope we can continue our struggle together in the future, she finishes and receives a standing ovation.
Sigrun Espe is the leader of the Student Peace Prize Committee, and tells us that Amidane was elected as winner due to her methods of documenting the violations of human rights, due to her establishment of an international network, and due to her courage, initiative and involvement in the fight for the Sahrawi students.
To view Rabab Amidane’s full speech visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/azwazil#p/u
14/02/2009
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Ms. Senia Bachir-Abderahman, a young Saharawi student, received three awards, last February 9, for her work as a student at Mount Holyoke College in the USA, for her commitment for her people’s freedom and right to self-determination. Two of the awards were given to Senia for her commitment for Western Sahara. The McCulloch Center Global Engagement Award for demonstrating “a high level of personal commitment to the community beyond the campus” and The Kelly Sottile Community Service Award for “outstanding commitment to raising awareness of critical global issues across campus and beyond”. Senia Bachir-Abderahman is described by her college as “a tireless advocate for the some 200,000 refugees from Western Sahara living in camps in Algeria. Senia Bachir-Abderahman, who was born and raised in an Algerian refugee camp and still is without citizenship from her home country, has spoken biannually at the United Nations since 2006 on behalf of the Western Saharawi plea for independence”. Senia gave the money from the Kelly Sottile Community Service Award to the Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara.
Source: United Saharawi Journalists and Writers www.upes.org
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26.07.2009
Another Saharawi student Said Elwaaban 23 years old, 2nd year Law at the Universiti in Rabat/Morocco,
was arrested in Semara/Western Sahara. He was transfered to Boulemharez prison in Marrakech on 30.08.2009.
Said Elwaaban is occused of the same charges of the other Saharawi students , Ibrahim Bariaz, Khalihina AbuLhasan and Ali salem Ablagh.
Said Elwaaban was very active in demonstrations that Saharawi students staged at the Universities in Morocco, calling for the legitimate right of Saharawi people to Self-Determination.
