Tlemcen (Algeria), 11 March 2023 (SPS) - French human rights activist Claude Mangin, wife of Sahrawi detainee Naâma Asfari by the Moroccan occupier, reiterated on Tuesday, in Tlemcen (Algeria), a call to support the Sahrawi people and detainees who are rotting in Moroccan prisons for years.
“A call was launched to the international community to further support the Sahrawi people and prisoners detained in several Moroccan prisons without enjoying any of their human rights,” she said in a meeting on raising awareness about the Sahrawi cause, held at the initiative of the National Union of Algerian Women (UNFA).
Claude Mangin who pointed out the conditions of her husband Naama Asfari in prison, who was imprisoned in 2010 after the dismantling of Gdeim Izik Camp, as well as the situation of injustice of the 19 prisoners of this group. “These detainees are deprived of medical care and family visits. The last time I saw my husband was in 2019,” she said, adding that she can make only two five-minute phone calls to her husband, twice a week.”
She also said, before an audience made up of students, academics and representatives of civil society associations, that “she has been banned from entering the Moroccan territory for seven years and she is no longer allowed to visit her husband,” adding “I lodged an appeal before Rabat Court, which notified in its decision that I represent a danger for the Moroccan State.”
“A call is thereby launched to the international community to further support the Sahrawi people and prisoners detained in several Moroccan prisons without enjoying any human right,” she said, reiterating her commitment to “continuing her struggle and making the voice of the Sahrawi people heard by all the international authorities in order to end the Moroccan imperialist colonialism”, while welcoming Algeria’s efforts in favour of the just Sahrawi cause.
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