Shaheed El Hafed, 21 December 2024 (SPS) - Saharawi activist Aeika SidAhmed Alaalam passed away yesterday, Friday, due to the consequences of the torture she endured at the hands of the Moroccan regime's executioners during her years of detention.
The Saharawi National Commission for Human Rights (CNSDH) issued a statement expressing condolences for the loss of the activist, who was held and disappeared in Moroccan prisons for years.
The Saharawi NGO extends its deepest condolences to the entire Saharawi people and to the family of the deceased in the occupied part of the Saharawi Republic.
“The Saharawi people lose an icon of the struggle and a distinguished activist who achieved great feats during a difficult phase of the national struggle, giving the flower of her life for the liberation and independence of the Saharawi people,” the statement notes.
The Saharawi activist spent four years in enforced disappearance along with a group of Saharawis at the secret center of Besissimi in the occupied city of El Aaiún. Due to her activism in favor of the Saharawi cause and against the Moroccan occupation, she was subjected to all kinds of shameful practices, repression, mistreatment, and torture.