12.2008

December 2008 the two Saharawi master in Law students, Ibrahim Bariaz and Ali salem Ablagh, University in Statt. were sent to Boulemharez prison in Marrakech, occused of the demonstration that Saharawi students staged earlier in April 2008.

The students Ibrahim Bariaz and Ali salem Ablagh together with Khalihina Abulhasan who was arrested for the same occusation, they had gone on a Hunger Strike for 55 days demanding their rights amoung their demands was the right of following their studies at the prison.

They were forced to stop their hunger strike because of their health situation and the lack of medical care with gaining no response to their demands.

On 04.04.2009 the families of the three Saharawi studentsarrested in Boulemharez prison in Marrakech, staged a demonstration appealing to the International organizations to protect the life of their striking children.

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Saharawi students all over the Universities in Morocco as well as at the schools in Western Sahara have been staging peaceful Demonstrations since the 1st of December 2008, in solidarity with the Saharawi students in Ibn Zohr University of Agadir and protesting against the brutal killing of the two Saharawi students Baba Khayya
(22y. 3rd y Economy) and Laktif Elhousin (21y.1st y Sociology) and the third student Belkadi Mbarek (1st y Law) who is still in a comma in a very delicate health situation at the hospital of Hassan the 2nd in Agadir, Morocco.

Ibn Zohr University of Agadir:

Saharawi students are on a hunger strike for 48h, they closed the gate of the faculty of Letters and Human Sciences and the faculty of Law and Economics, boycott the exams.
Demonstrations are occurring every day in front of the faculties and at the University Campus.

Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech:

Saharawi students since the 1st/Dec/08 are demonstrating at the faculties, boycotting the exams and going on marches between the faculties towards the University Campus.
On the 2nd of December, the Moroccan brutal forces nearly broke into the Campus.

Hassan the 2nd University of Casa Blanca:

Saharawi students are going through a series of demonstrations in solidarity.

Med V University of Rabat:

Saharawi students are making demonstrations.
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Western Sahara: (El Aaiun)

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Lemsalla High school:

Saharawi students boycott the studies and exams in addition to the Demonstrations.

Hassan the 2nd High school:

Saharawi students have been demonstrating.
On the 3rd of December at 01:00 the brutal Moroccan forces stormed the High school causing many victims, some students were sent to the hospital and some were detained.
We are still waiting for more information.

We, the Saharawi students are prevented from our rights such as right of Expression, Education, Transport, Master studies…

Every year we encounter serious troubles of registration at the Universities, problems of transfer…etc In addition to the brutal attacks by the Moroccan authorities in respond to our peaceful demonstrations calling for our right to Self-Determination.

Attached:
A photo presentation of the situation of Saharawi students in two years time
(2007. 2008) as an example.

We appeal to you the conscience of the world to support us in our peaceful struggle to Self-Determination and Justice.

We want you to be aware about our situation now, we are continuing our struggle to achieve Justice and that the responsible of the killing of the Saharawi students be prosecuted in International courts.

We demand an International Protection, considering the brutal attacks by the Moroccan authorities and the serious consequences on students.

We demand a serious pressure on Morocco to stop those flagrant violations of Human Rights in Western Sahara and Universities.
And that respect our rights as Saharawis, to Self-Determination
and our right as students to express our opinions.

We need a presence of foreign journalists Human Rights activists and international observers to follow our case and to support us in our struggle.

Saharawi students
Ibn Zohr University of Agadir
03rd/12/2008

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Date : 1rst December 2008
Time : Evening, between 08:00 and 08:30
Place : Agadir city. The bus station “Al masira”

Event : The killing of Two Saharawi students,
One other Student is in a comma,
Some were detained and beaten up by the police

On the 1rst of December 2008, at 08:00 in the evening,

Saharawi students were having a sit-in at the bus station of “Al masira” demanding their right of transport; they want to go to their cities in Western Sahara for the “Aid” feast.

The responsible people of the bus station did not show any help to solve the problem and offer a buss for the students.
Moreover, the police were surrounding the bus station.
At the same time, one bus driver was given the permission
by the police (according to the students testimonies’) he was given the order to go ahead towards the students whom were sitting as a protest.

The bus crushed three students, two were killed and one is in a comma at “Hassan the 2nd” hospital.
5 other students were victims as well, injured in different parts of the body.

The killed students are:

Baba Khayya and Laktif Elhousin

The student who is in a coma is named Belkadi Mbarek.

The other students’ victims:

Elkherchi Mbarek : Broken hand
Abdessalam Chtouki : Bruising at the hand and arm
Nafai Zaza : Bruising at the hand and back
Nadia : bruising at the back

The bus driver escaped immediately after committing the crime.

The police break into the bus station immediately after the crime; they beat up the students and detained 11 ones.
The students were released after a while and two of them
(Elaasli Ahmad Salem and Elhadef Mbarek) were released lately at 01h am.

The students’ victims were taken by taxis to the hospital.

The killed students and the other one who is in a comma was taken by an ambulance after half an hour to the “Hassan the 2nd” hospital.

The Moroccan authorities considered at the first time the event as an accident.
Today the under king at the tribunal of Agadir considered the event as mechanical defect and promised to follow the appropriate actions.

On the 2nd December, 2008, Saharawi students have started Demonstrations

Since the morning it was a demonstration and a march in front of the faculty of Arts and Human sciences and in the afternoon they have a Demonstration in front of the faculty of Law and Economics “Ibn Zohr” University, Agadir.

Members of Moroccan National Students Union (UNEM) expressed their solidarity to the Saharawi students and their consolation to the Martyrs students’ families.

We, the Saharawi students are continuing our peaceful struggle for Independence and Justice.

We together with the Martyrs students’ families are demanding the international community, Human Rights Organizations, international courts
to follow this serious case.

Saharawi students
In Ibn Zohr University
Agadir, Morocco

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Saharawi Students in Occupied Western Sahara and Moroccan Universities are in Solidarity with our Comrades the Students Prisoners of Conscious at the prison of Marrakech\Morocco.

 

According to the students prisoners’ families declaration:

 

The 18 students went on a Hunger Strike for 46 days since they were arrested on the 14^th May 2008,

 Demanding to get their right to medical care, after 5 days of torture they went through.

 To get an individual room separates them from the other prisoners, since they are Political Prisoners.

The right to the family and friends visits.

The right to pursue their studies inside the prison.

 

Prisoners’ situation:

 

On 18.08.2008. The student Mourad Chouini, was attacked by a group of prisoners motivated by the guardians whom serve the regime, he was stabbed by a knife in the neck.

 His friends Hicham El Idrissi, Hafid El Hafidi and Jalal El Kotbi whom tried to help him were also beaten up and injured at the level of:  hand, leg, face, eye and nose.

 

The student Mohamed Jamili, still suffering the lost of memory because of the torture,  problems of stomach and skin disease.

 

 The student Zahra Boudkour Her face, stomach and parts of her body are swollen, afraid to be diabetic.

 

The students Othmane Chouini and Youssef Machdoufi have asthma and skin disease.

All students suffer this skin disease.

 

The families of the Students Prisoners of Conscious have gone through manifestations one in front of the Tribunal of Marrakech on the 27^th May, protesting against the illegitimate arrest of the students.

And another manifestation in front of “Bou Lemharez” prison in Marrakech on the 22^nd August from 10am to 06pm.

 

 

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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.

More information about “Lehbib Latif”:

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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Students in Cady Ayyad University in Marrakech staged a march on May the 14^th,

calling for their rights.

Students Moroccans of the Nahj Democratic and Saharawis were demanding their rights such as :

- Freedom of speech, because many students have been expelled from the University, arrested and disappeared because of their political opinions.

-The right of education, most students are not allowed to study master studies.

Students are not allowed to study in some domains like medicine and politics.

-The right of a scholarship, some students especially those from very poor and far cities like Zagoura have to pay for their transport.

-The right to Self-determination for Saharawi people.

It has been 20 days that the students are boycotting the lessons and exams as a protest till their rights are respected.

In April this year 19 students were poisoned at the cafeteria of the campus, in consequence the students Moroccans the Nahj Democratic and Saharawis had a march in the public street , on the 17^th at night protesting against this event.

The police stopped the march in a brutal way and arrested 40 students.

Moroccans the Nahj Democratic and Saharawi students were gathering in the campus on Wednesday at 03:30 to go on a march to the head administration of the University, few km from the University.

The peaceful march was stopped by a huge troops of the Moroccan army.

Students had no choice but to escape to the campus. They had a manifestation inside it.

The Moroccan oppressive forces were surrounding the campus, the University and all the roads leading to the University.

The students had slogans such as :

-People.. Revolute against the dictator regime.

-Arrests .. Torture .. False trials is the attitude of occupation .

-We determined to be free .. No alternative but Victory .. Saharawi people go on till Independence.. Moroccan people go on till Freedom and Victory.

-We are still on the path of the continues struggle .. Be confident our martyr ..We are the future revolution .. All the betrayer hearts one day will defeat .. All the cruel handcuffs will be broken one day..

It will be broken and we built castles of Freedom ..

It will be broken and we damage the cuffs of Occupation..

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As a respond, Moroccan oppressive forces used guns to threaten the students, they shoot bullets in the air to stop those slogans.

They also threw a lot of teargas bombs , that caused several victims of students.

The oppressive forces broke into the campus at the evening, causing huge damage in the campus , the rooms of students were stormed, their things were completely destroyed.

According to Moroccan news papers 300 students were detained and two students were thrown from the 4^th floor of the building , they were in a very sensitive situation at

the hospital of “Ibn Tofil”, one is a Saharawi from Assa city, his neck , back and feet were broken and the Moroccan other one was killed .

In reality, it was more than 300 students were detained and tortured at “Jamaa Lefna” police station.

Three students were beaten up by the police and thrown from the fourth flour .

Two Saharawis : Elwali Kadimi from Assa, he had an urgent operation on his neck on Saturday.

Hassan Fateh : broken in several parts of his body.

The third one is a Moroccan student from Demnat is a small village near Marrakech he died after he was thrown from the 4^th flour.

All the students at the campus were harshly beaten up, especially Saharawi and the Nahj Democratic students.

Around 15 students from the Nahj Democratic one of them is a girl are still detained , three of them were sent to the prison of “Bu Lenharez” in Marrakech last Monday.

Some saharawi students testimony that while they were at the session of the torture they saw one of the Nahj Democratic students his name is “Younes” , they couldn’t recognize him in the beginning, his face was swollen and full of blood , he was taken 6 times to the electric shock area.

Other Saharawi students live in “Elwahda 4” area testimony that the police stormed the apartment where they live, they were pulling their neighbor he is one of the Nahj Democratic students , he couldn’t walk on his feet, his face was swollen and he looked very sick.

The police stormed his room, damaged his furniture and confiscated his files and computer.

The campus now is a military barracks, students were forced to leave it. The army is there instead so as to control the students in the University.

The students now are dispersed, some couldn’t find a place to settle and no money to come back to their cities so they are sleeping in the streets near the shops or at Internet cafes .

The final examination are starting this weak but, most students returned to their cities with their injuries..

This is not the first time that students in Morocco Saharawis or the Nahj Democratic suffer this brutality , it is a systematic attacks that is occurring especially at the time of examination.

Students are peacefully demonstrating to get their rights,

Saharawis demanding their legitimate right to Self-Determination

And the Nahj Democratic students demanding their rights to a free Morocco, no monarchy , no exploitation of people and natural resources, no poverty, no illiteracy….

Students can not support receiving brutal attacks each year, just because they are saying No to the Moroccan cruel regime.

This situation must be changed. Or in the near future will not find any student in the Universities.

As students Saharawis and Moroccans “Nahj Democratic”

in Marrakech, we demand

The release of all students the prisoners of conscience .

Our rights must be respected .

Our demands we gave to the administration of the University must be implemented.

The military must leave the campus and students must return.

Students need an International Protection.

Moroccan regime must sign a treaty that these brutal attacks will not happen again, and that the dialogue is better can lead to solutions better than the teargas bombs and torture.

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Things are really intense in Marrakech now. There has been demonstrations both from Moroccans and Saharwis. Yesterday, police surrounded the University of Marrakech, throwing in teargas. Many injured, both among Sahrawis and Moroccans. Students were beaten up, injured and were handcuffed.
Rumours of people thrown off roofs again. It supposedly all started the day before yesterday, when the students at campus were served food which was old/poisunous, and some 20-40 Moroccan students urgently were rushed to hospital. Moroccans protested against campus management, and Sahrawis joined in…it all rolled from there. Some people had fled from the university.

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