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Occupied Aaiun,  29 August 2018 (SPS) – The Association for the Protection of Sahrawi Prisoners in Moroccan Jails has sounded an terrifying alarm an over the  serious health situation of Sahrawi political prisoners who are on hunger strike in Moroccan prisons, especially the prison of Ait Melloul.

Abdel Mawla El Hafedi and Mohamed Dada on hunger strike for more than 38 days, along with thiern political comrade Ali Chargui who spent more than 27 days in his hunger strike

The Association has appealed all international human rights bodies and organizations to pressure the Moroccan occupation to stop its arbitrary policy  against  the Sahrawi political prisoners who are hunger strikers shouldering , in this regard, the Moroccan occupation the full responsibility of their safety .

Many of Sahrawi political prisoners have entered a hunger strike, denouncing the harsh conditions of detention they are living in the Moroccan occupation prisons. It should be recalled SPS

a través de Prisoners Protection Association sounds terrifying alarm over Sahrawi detainee situation | Sahara Press Service

Gienbra, August 29, 2018 (SPS) – The Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions of the United Nations has asked Morocco for the immediate release of Saharawi journalist Mohamed Bambari, member of the Saharawi journalist group Equipe Media, which reported on violations of rights Humans and the struggle for self-determination of the Saharawi people in the occupied city of Dakhla.

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions of the United Nations considers that this journalist detained since August 26, 2015 should receive the corresponding medical treatment.

In recent years, several international human rights organizations have expressed concern over the serious situation of human rights in occupied Western Sahara and, in particular, the repression against journalists such as Mohamed Bambari and Salah Lebsir, who have been harshly sentenced for false accusations.

Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, has said that the Working Group has concluded that Morocco imprisoned Bambari for daring to exercise its right to freedom of expression and association and that there are many more like him in Western Sahara.

For her part,  Maran Turner, Executive Director of Freedom Now, the Bambari detention was arbitrary and illegal and indicates how Morocco silences the freedom of expression in Western Sahara and that, as part of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Morocco must immediately comply with the decision of the UN and liberate Bambari. SPS

a través de UN asks Morocco to immediate release Saharawi journalist Mohamed Bambari | Sahara Press Service

Ait Melloul (Morocco), 28 August 2018 (SPS) – The Sahrawi political prisoner in the Agdeim Izik group, Mohamed Bani was arrested on Monday has begun two days  hunger strike.

Mohamed Bani waged  hunger strike in protest against the arbitrary measures that the prison administration Ait Melloul 2 has taken against him and his family.

such as putting ostacules which is also suffering from these arbitrary measures. It has been waiting for several hours before allowing it to carry out The family visit in light of the harsh living conditions and the distance of not less than 600 km from the Western Sahara towards the cities of southern Morocco in addition to the harassment and deliberate provocation by the prison staff and the confiscation of all its needs and deliberately destroyed by meals And other things.

The prison administration has prevented him from offering his condoleance via telephone to his family following the death of his younger uncle, according to a statement of the family reached the Association for the Protection of Prisoners. SPS

a través de Sahrawi political prisoner in Agdeim Izik Mohammed Bani begins a hunger strike | Sahara Press Service