Algeria, 16 June 2020 (Was) - The Sahrawi Human Rights Committee (CONASADH) renewed its call to provide protection for Sahrawi political prisoners in Moroccan jails who suffer negligence of their humanitarian conditions amid the outbreak of the Corona, which The President of the Sahrawi Red Crescent, Bouhbini Yahya, made clear Monday to APS.
the Sahrawi Committee for Human Rights renewed its invitation through a message addressed to the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and all organizations Humanity, to provide protection for Sahrawi political detainees in Moroccan prisons who suffer from ignoring their humanitarian conditions in light of the Corona pandemic, "noting that" the Sahrawi authorities have certain information that the epidemic is spread within the prisons where they are located. "
The President of the Sahrawi Red Crescent expressed "the Sahrawi authorities' concern for the lives of political detainees in this unprecedented circumstance," noting that "the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations had also appealed for the release of the detainees in these difficult circumstances."
Mr. Bouhbini also stated that "during last May, 212 NGOs sent the same appeal to the High Commissioner and the International Committee of the Red Cross, regarding the suffering of Sahrawi detainees in Moroccan prisons."
For her part, the President of the Algerian Red Crescent, Saida Ben Habilis, received a copy of the message the Sahrawi Committee for Human Rights sent to the International Committee of the Red Cross and all humanitarian organizations, calling on him to intervene urgently to save the Sahrawi detainees.
In response to this appeal, the Algerian Red Crescent has given 4,000 masks to its Sahrawi counterpart to take care of Sahrawi detainees inside Moroccan prisons. SPS
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