The trial of the Saharawi students in Marrakech was postponed
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 24th Jully 2008.
He was accompanying the Italian judge “Nikola Quatrano” and three other international observers whom attended the trial in Agadir on the 24th Jully.
Maliha Elmahjoub is under a temporary release waiting for his next trial on the 11th October 2008.
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