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CEAS-Sahara expresses concern about situation of Claude Mangin Asfari on hunger strike

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Madrid, April 30, 2018 (SPS) - The Coordination of Solidarity Associations with the Sahara (CEAS-Sahara) has expressed in a statement "its utmost concern regarding the situation of the French citizen Claude Mangin Asfari, who belongs to the French Association of Friendship with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and wife of one of the Saharawi political prisoners of the Gdeim Izik group."
"Claude Mangin Asfari has been on hunger strike since April 18, at the City Hall of Ivry sur Seine, the city where she lives and which named Naama Asfari" Citizen of Honor "three years ago."
"Resorting to this ultimate action was the result of the impossibility of visiting her husband, given that the Moroccan authorities have prevented her entry since October 2016.", says CEAS-Sahara
CEAS-Sahara launches a campaign of solidarity with the French activist through sending emails and messages of support and proposing organization of solidarity trips and visits to Claude, so that she feels the support of the whole movement in this terrible battle that she is maintaining in defense of something as basic as being able to visit her husband, a Saharawi political prisoner. (SPS)
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