Sale (Morocco), November 22, 2013 (SPS) - Sahrawi detainees of Gdeim Izik group called on American President Barack Obama to speed up the setting-up of a United Nations mechanism for monitoring human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
“The situation in the occupied territories is more and more deteriorating because of the serious violations of human rights by Morocco, hence the need to speed up the setting-up of a UN human rights mechanism in Western Sahara,” underlined the detainees in a letter sent to President Obama.
The letter calls for the release of all the Saharawi political prisoners in the Moroccan jails and also for “revealing the truth about the missing, the release of the Sahrawi war detainees and the destruction of the wall of shame, which separates the Sahrawi people.”
Gdeim Izik detainees hailed “the efforts undertaken by the people and the government of the United States, as well as by the organizations and the civil society to support the right of Sahrawi people to self-determination and the respect for the international law.”
The letter hailed the “courageous and historic “decision of the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan Rice to include the human rights monitoring mechanism in the mandate of MINURSO (United Nations Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara). (SPS)
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