Tiznit (Morocco), April 3, 2013 (SPS) - The Saharawi activist Al-Hasan Mohamed Lehsen started Wednesday an open hunger-strike in the Moroccan prison of Tiznit, to demand better living and health condition as well as to protest the prison administration’s failure to respond to his legitimate demands, according to the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Communities Abroad.
The Saharawi activist ought to see the gastrointestinal and throat doctor on Tuesday.
He was exposed to torture and degrading treatments inside the prison. He held several hunger strikes led to health complications, added the same source.
The activist arrested by Moroccan gendarmerie forces in 2004.
He was sentenced to ten years in prison enforce, he spent part of the period in Lekhal prison in occupied El Aaiun, Ait Melloul prison in Agadir, before being transferred to Tiznit prison. (SPS)
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