Brussels (Belgium), October 2, 2014 (SPS) - Polisario Front called on Tuesday the European Union to act to end the abuses of the Moroccan authorities in occupied Western Sahara and the violations of Sahrawi prisoners’ human rights.
In a letter sent to the European Commission and European Parliament, Mohamed Sidati, minister and representative of the Polisario Front in Europe, called on the European Union to help “putting an end to the Moroccan authorities’ flagrant violations of the Sahrawi prisoners’ human rights.”
A human rights activist and Sahrawi political prisoner, Hassan Elouali, died on Saturday evening in a prison in the occupied Sahrawi city of Dakhla. His death “is the result of years of flagrant negligence and torture,” said the Polisario Front.
“The Moroccan authorities cannot continue acting with complete impunity,” said Sidati.
While referring to a recent call of Amnesty International for an urgent action, he said that “the death of Hssan El Wali is but the most recent of a series of examples of serious misdeeds, ill- treatment, negligence and torture by the Moroccan authorities in the illegally occupied Sahrawi territories.” (SPS)
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