Washington, April 19, 2015 (SPS) - The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights condemned Saturday the attack, recently, in El Aaiun (Sahrawi occupied territories) on human rights activist Aminatou Haidar and Sahrawis who were demonstrating peacefully.
President of the Robert F. Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights, Kerry Kennedy and Executive Director of RFK Partners for Human Rights at the Robert F. Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights, Santiago A. Canton, condemn Morocco’s recent police brutality against the home of the Sahrawi human rights activist Aminatou Haidar and peaceful demonstrators at El Aaiun in the occupied Western Sahara, said a communiqué released by the Centre.
Aminatou Haidar is the 2008 RFK Human Rights Award Laureate and President of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA).
I am shocked and concerned following the reports on attacks against Sahrawi human rights defenders including our partner Aminatou Haidar, regretted Kerry Kennedy, quoted in the text.
Underlining that the attack and police brutality occurred Tuesday at the time where Aminatou Haidar received, at her home, United Nations’ representatives to discuss “infringement of human rights in Western Sahara,” said Kennedy who affirmed that the attackers took CODESA’s collective and UN delegation hostages at Haidar’s home. (SPS)
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