Comité pour la défense du droit à l'autodétermination pour le peuple du Sahara Occidental

After an intense campaign led by the Kingdom of Morocco against the Saharawi human rights activists following the arrest of seven Sahrawi activists, and after the confiscation of passports of seven more, there's a new  name on the list, the activist Hmad Hamad.

Subject: Activist Hmad Hamad's passport confiscated

Subject: Assault of the Sahrawi activist Mr. Cherif Baiji.

Location: Bir Jdid Aaiun / Western Sahara.

Date: 06 - January - 2010 11: 00 pm GMT.

22/12/09 The Moroccan public security forces proceeded to assault the house of the family Ahl Daha, known as "Jouda" in the city of Smara, Western Sahara.

INTERPRETER: Sure. Mr. Minister, if we understood correctly, you discussed the issue of Sahara. Right now, there is a problem with a Western Sahara citizen that you were aware of. What type of cooperation did you ask from the United States over that issue? Also, last week, it was said that there is no intervention necessary right now from the king. At what point would the king’s intervention be necessary?

The Moroccan authorities confiscated Sahrawi human rights defender Aminatou Haidar’s passport on 13 November and expelled her from the country the following day, leaving her stranded in Lanzarote Airport, in Spain’s Canary Islands. She has been on hunger strike since 15 November in protest.

Mini Rapport concernant: L'état des droits de l'homme au Sahara Occidental pour l'an 2009

Présenter pour Le trente-cinquième Colloque de la coordination européenne a Barcelone / Espagne

les jours 20, 21 et 22 Novembre 2009

 
Press statement on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Western Sahara Occupied Territories
Source: Government of South Africa

22nd of November 2009.
Dear Aminetu Haidar,

Diana.Eltahawy@amnesty.org
Objet: Morocco/Western Sahara: Expulsion of human rights defender reflects growing intolerance :
Date: Mardi 17 Novembre 2009, 18h28
 Dear all,

First of all thank you so much for your invitation to address you on behalf of my brother. My name is Aicha Dahane. I am the sister of Brahim Dahane president of the Saharawi Association of victims of human rights abuses committed by Morocco. On his behalf and on the behalf of all the members of his association ADVSH, and the Sahrawi people, I would like to thank the Swedish section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) for nominating Brahim for the Per Anger prize. And to thank Living History Forum for awarding the prize to Brahim and to Mrs.