Algiers, May 3, 2013 (SPS) - The Algerian Communication Minister Mr. Mohamed Said has expressed Algeria media family’s solidarity with the struggle of journalists across the world for the defense of peoples’ freedom, especially in Western Sahara and Palestine.
In a ceremony marking the occasion at Moufdi Zakaria’s Palace of Culture, the Minister said that media family of Algeria “expresses solidarity with the struggle of journalists throughout the world for the defense of peoples’ freedom, especially in Western Sahara and Palestine.”
It worth noting that several Saharawi journalists and activists were subject to assaults and violence at the hand Moroccan occupation authorities in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and south of Morocco.
Saharawi Journalists and Writers’ Union (UPES) has called for lifting that security siege and administrative constraints imposed by Moroccan occupation on the press freedom in the occupied Western Sahara, pointing out to the sudden inspection campaigns, confiscation of cameras, blocking Saharawi websites, monitoring internet users and prevent the access to the Territory of the press and international observers.
It therefore called on international bodies, organizations and ONGs, interested in the freedom of the press and journalists across the world, to condemn Moroccan heinous acts against the Saharawis, especially journalists and activists in general, as to use all available means of pressure to carry Morocco to halt such acts.
May 3th of every year marks the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the General Assembly for Human Rights of a day for press freedom, two years after Windhoek Declaration on the need to establish free and independent press. (SPS)
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