Algiers, October 26, 2011 (SPS) - The director of the Italian Council for Refugees (CIR), Christopher Hein, expressed Tuesday in Algiers concern on the situation of three international aid workers abducted in the Sahrawi refugee camps, calling on their kidnappers to release them quickly.
"We are very concerned over the situation of the three humanitarian aid workers kidnapped earlier this week in the Saharawi refugee camps," said Mr. Christopher in Algiers on the sidelines of the workshop on strengthening the protection of migrants and capacity to manage migration flows.
"They must be in a terrible situation," he added, saying that "nothing justifies their captivity, and nothing prevents them to be released soon."
He also said that the CIR is in contact with the Italian humanitarian Association CCISPP, to which Urru Rossella belongs, who was abducted with two other Spanish Members of European NGOs.
Three members of European NGOs, two Spaniards and one Italian, were abducted during an attack by terrorists in the night from Saturday to Sunday in the Sahrawi refugee camps.
The victims are Fernandez Coin Aino of Spanish nationality, member of the Association of Friendship with the Saharawi people in Extremadura (Spain), Enrico Gonyalons, a Spanish citizen and member of the Spanish NGO Mundubat and Rossella Urru from Italy, member of the Italian NGO CCISPP. (SPS)
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