Seville (Spain), Feb 6, 2012 (SPS) - The Saharawi activist and President of the Collective of the Saharawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA), Ms. Aminatou Haidar, called Sunday on the U.S. and Europe to immediately intervene to halt the brutal repression experienced by the Moroccan state against the Saharawis in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
The Activist highlighted, during the closing of the 37th European Coordination Conference of Support to the Sahrawi Saharawi People (EUCOCO), to the serious situation of human rights in the occupied Western Sahara, saying “it has increasingly deteriorated since EUCOCO’s 36th Conference last year.”
She denounced the miserable condition of the 23 Saharawi political prisoners incarcerated in Moroccan Sale’s jail and rejection of the Moroccan authorities to conduct an investigation on the circumstances behind the assassination of the Martyr Said Dambar.
Ms. Haidar also asked the international community to pressurize Morocco for enabling the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination. (SPS)
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