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Saharawi students in Marrakech

 
Sharawi students in Marrakech University are still countinuing their struggle protesting against those cruel attacks they have been suffering since the 06th of April , in order that the Moroccan government will stop any Saharawi activities in Moroccan Universities.
In addition to the Manifestations and Marchs Saharawi students have been staging to liberate their friend the political prisoner
 Khalihina AbuAlhassan ( the photo) who was arrested after a sit-in in the campus on the 13 of April at 05:30 in the morning.
 
Saharawi students staged another sit-in ( sleeping the nights on the ground ) in the campus for 48 hours, from the 22nd April till the 24.
Demanding the Moroccan autorities to reliease with no conditions the political prisoner and the student Khalihina AbuAlhassan.
 
During the sit-in in the campus on Wednesday, the 23rd April at 17:30 , one of the Saharawi students whose name is Haddi Yarba  was attacked by that Moroccan group , he recieved a seriouse blow on the head by a stone.
The student Haddi Yarba is 26 years old studing Sociology the 2nd year in the University of Marrakech.
 He spent two days at the hospital then was sent to a clinic for a special care, he has a blood clot in the brain.
 Haddy Yarba is now out of the hospital but still has difficulties to speak.
 
In addition to the threatening  that Saharawi students recieved  if they countinue their way in struggling, as an example the Saharawi student and HR deffender Rabab Amidane recieved phone calls on Saturday to be attacked and kidnapped if she doesnt stop her activities.
The Moroccan autorities are now kidnapping Saharawi students activists, as they had done last years.
 
On Friday Evening the 25th April  , the Moroccan Intelligence arrested the Saharawi student Baihada Loujaj  in the train station of Marrakech immediately after he came down from the train.  
The Saharawi student Baihada Loujaj is 26 years old , has a bachelor in Law International relations and now he is preparing his Master in intern administration at the University of Statt.
 
He came frome Statt to join his friends the Saharawi students in their struggle to liberate  the Saharawi student and political prisoner Khalihina AbuAlhassan.
 
The disapeared Saharawi student Baihada Loujaj was kidnapped because he is politically activist and always participates in peaceful Demonstrations calling for the Saharawi right to Self-Determination and full Independence.
Baihada Loujaj was released after 4 days under torture and cruel interogation in a sucret jail in Marrakech. He was sent to the sity of Statt where he studies.
 
 

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The Sahrawi Students are subjected to Assault and Chasing by armed gangs in Marrakech, Morocco.

Marrakech, central Morocco, has been witnessing dangerous events for more than two weeks caused by some gangs armed with swords and batons,   targeting the Sahrawi students who arestudying there. The Sahrawi university students are attacked at university, in the university campus, in their homes and in the public streets because of their advocating the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination and independence.
The Sahrawi students claim that since April 08th, 2008, they have been assaulted by disguised persons with turbans, who are attacking the Sahrawi students in the campus and outside.
Belaid Chrif, a Sahrawi student, was injured at the level of his hand. Hassan Stiti was attacked by the same people while sleeping at home on April 07th, 2007 and his face, legs, hands and shoulder were wounded, and was taken to hospital in a delicate state.
On April 12th, 2008, Ennaji Charabara, was attacked by six persons, while getting out of a cybercafé, and was inured on his right arm.
Latif Lahbib, a 30 year-old human rights defender and a student researcher, was surprised by a group of armed agents attacking him inside the university campus. The assault resulted in three severe wounds on the head, different wounds on the shoulder and four other injuries on the right kidney’s level. He had to stay for 48 hours in the hospital and he is now in coma.
In this respect, Khalihanna Aboulhassan, a Sahrawi student, was arrested by the Moroccan police in plainclothes, from a public street, while the anti-Sahrawi criminal gangs are moving freely if not supported. Khalihanna had been disappeared since April 15th, before he was reported to be in Bouleharez Prison in Marrakech, Morocco. He claims that he was tortured and interrogated without knowing any reason for his arrest.
The Moroccan authorities arrested, in ambiguous conditions, the Sahrawi human rights defender and co-president of the CORELSO, Ennaama Asfari on April 13th, 2008, and was put in Boulemharez Prison in Marrakech, awaiting his trial on April 21st, 2008.
Following these dangerous developments against the Sahrawi students in the Moroccan universities, the CODESA secretariat points out the following:
-the Moroccan authorities silence re these militia attacks against the Sahrawi students.
-these developments coincide with the end-of-year university exams, which will certainly  affect their achievement results negatively.
-the concern of a probable backing up of these armed agents by the Moroccan authorities and assuring their protection in order to chase and assault the Sahrawi university  students, aiming to intimidate them in order not to defend the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination, or even not to continue their university studies.

Thus, the CODESA secretariat :
calls the Moroccan authorities to assume its responsibility in protecting the Sahrawi students studying in its universities, and respecting their political views.

asks the Moroccan state to look into the brutal attacks that targeted the Sahrawi students in Marrakech these recent days.

Condemns the Moroccan authorities return to the political arrest, torture and false trials against the Sahrawi students and human rights defenders.

The CODESA secretariat,
El Aaiun, Western Sahara.
April 21st, 2008.