Algiers, April 14, 2016 (SPS) - Ambassador of the Sahrawi Republic to Algiers Bechraya Hammoudi Beyoune called Wednesday to exert more pressure on the Moroccan occupier to lead it to comply with the international law and respect the human rights violated in the occupied Sahrawi territories openly and publicly.
In his discussions with the chairman of the National Consultative Commission for Human Rights Protection and Promotion (CNCPPDH) Farouk Ksentini, the Sahrawi ambassador said that an “international vigorous campaign” was led recently by several international organizations to exert pressure on Morocco and lead it to respect human rights and to denounce its “arbitrary and inhuman” practices.
In this regard, he underlined the excesses against the political prisoners of Gdeim Izik who stopped their hunger strike after 37 days, pointing out the need to “exert pressure on the Moroccan occupier to speed up the judicial process and totally respect their rights as political prisoners.”
The decision of the Sahrawi political prisoners detained in Morocco to stop their hunger strike was taken following the Moroccan State’s commitment, via the Moroccan Human Rights Council, in the meeting that took place on 5 April, to speed up the judicial process before the Court of cassation, and to totally respect their rights as political prisoners.”
On this occasion, he hailed, on behalf of the Sahrawi people and government, the ongoing support to the Sahrawi direction in terms of defending human rights, by CNCPPDH, which has become, he added, “ a reference” for its “essential role” in the denunciation, at the African and global levels, violations of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.SPS
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