On the 16th August, the Moroccan authorities detained the Saharawi student Ammar Sidi Baba (22y) studies law at the University of Agadir/Morocco.

Ammar Sidi Baba denounced he was in his way home at around 04:30am then he was stopped by 06 police officers forced him to get into the police car then took him to the police station at 05 am. He was hand cuffed, blind folded and harshly beaten up at the police car. He was thrown in an isolated room , till 10am then he was taken to pass through the interrogation session.

Ammar Sidi Baba was interrogated about his political activities in his city and at the University “Ibn Zohr” in Agadir where he studies.

Ammar was humiliated and beaten up by the police officers since they found in his mobilephone some videos of the manifestation at the University and some Saharawi Revolution songs.

Ammar Sidi Baba was released at 01:00 in the afternoon at the same day.

Ammar Sidi Baba denounced that the police didn’t inform his family about his detention, also, the police confiscated his mobile phone and detained him for 10 hours illegally.

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Marrakech/Morocco, the 13th August 2008.

The trial of the Saharawi student and prisoner of consciense Khalihina AbuLhasan was postponed till the 11th December 2008.

Khalihina AbuLhasan was arrested the 13th Aprill this year in Marrakech/Morocco at 05:30 am .

His arrest was after a peaceful sit-in that the Saharawi students staged at the campus of the University in Marrakech as a protest of the violents attacks they had been suffering since the 6th of April 2008 by a gang motivated and paid by the Moroccan authorities.

The judge of the tribunal in Marrakech postponed Khalihina’s trial three times because the witnesses that attest the participate in violence that khalihina was accused for, have never appear.

Khalihina AbuLhasan is arrested because of his participate in the peaceful Demonstrations calling for the rights to Saharawis to Self-Determination that were staged in ocupied Western Sahara as well as the Moroccan Universities.

At the same day the 13 August, the trial of  the Saharawi student and Human Rights defender Maliha Elmahjoub was also postponed till the 11th October 2008.

Maliha Elmahjoub (23y).  Studies Law, International relations at the University in Marrakech / Morocco. A member of the Saharawi HR organization CODESA, and a member in the Saharawi committee for HR in Assa | Zaq)

He was prosecuted and charged of the same charges of Khalihina Abulhasan.

Maliha Elmahjoub attended the trial of 08 Saharawi political prisoners in Agadir city | Morocco on the 24^th Jully 2008.

He was accompanying the Italian judge “Nikola Quatrano” and three other international observers whom attended the trial in Agadir on the 24^th Jully.

Maliha Elmahjoub is under a temporary release waiting for his next trial on the 11th October 2008.

Appdates:

On 11.09.2008

Khalihina AbuLhasan was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for his participation in a Demonstration in Marrakech on the 13th April 2008.

Maliha Elmahjoub was released.

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On the 4th August 2008, in Goulimim city, the Saharawi people together with the Saharawi students staged a manifestation protesting against the Moroccan authorities whom prevent them from attending the trial of the Saharawi political prisoner Sahel Bouzid.

Sahel Bouzid was sentenced because of his political opinions about the Western Sahara, the right to Self-Determination and the right to a Saharawi nationality instead of a Moroccan one. The Moroccan authorities attacked the demonstrators savagely causing many Saharawi victims. Some of the victims were High school students and some were University students one of them was Brahim Bariaz,
the Saharawi student whom was prevented from the right to master studies because of his political activities.

Another victim was the Human Rights defender Khadija Mouthik.
The Moroccan authorities detained two Saharawi students:
Mohamed Ahrouch: Bachelor student. Unemployed, because of his political opinions.
Lehbib Latif: Human Rights defender. Preparing Doctorate in the International Economy.

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The two Saharawi students were detained at the police station, without informing their families, from 17:00 till 11:00 when they were sent to the Hospital.

According to the testimonies of the detainees, they were mistreated and beaten up by the police at the car of the police, and savagely beaten up by the police officers under the cruel interrogation inside the police station.

Also, they were forced to sign declaration they did not know what contained, then they found themselves at the hospital.

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