Sale (Morocco), Feb 18, 2015 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoners incarcerated in Moroccan Sale Jail, known as Gdeim Izik detainees, have urged the Security Council to pressurize the Moroccan state to establish a UN mechanism to protect human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
In a letter addressed to the UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Christopher Ross, the group denounced Moroccan Kingdom’s persistence in its policy of intransigence, kidnapping, torture, mock trials, confiscation of human rights, and inhuman practices.
The letter went on saying that there is a lack of good faith by the Moroccan party to cooperate with the parties so to find a just and concrete solution to the Saharawi issue on the basis of international law and the pertinent resolutions of the Security Council and United Nations.
It, in the same regard, called for the urgent need to free all the Saharawi political prisoners and stop the illegal exploitation of the Saharawi natural resources by Morocco. (SPS)
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