El Aaiun (occupied territories), Nov 5, 2014 (SPS) - Saharawi political prisoners, currently languishing in Moroccan prisons, on Wednesday launched a 3-day alarming hunger strike in protest of being brought to courts that lack the basic requirements of a fair trial, said the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Diaspora.
Held under the motto “We Are All Hasana El-Wali”, the Saharawi political prisoners, detained in the Moroccan Local Prison of Sale 1, started this battle of empty intestines, in concurrence with the 4th anniversary of the Moroccan military attack on Gdeim Izik camp on 8 November 2010.
The prisoners, kept in pretrial detention, are suffering from ill-treatment and deprivation of the right to medical treatment, which recently caused the death of the Saharawi political prisoner, Hasana El-Wali.
They were sentenced to a heavy-handed and unfair charges ranging from twenty to life in prison. (SPS)
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