Copenhagen, Oct 8, 2014 (SPS) - Danish non-governmental organization “Afrika Kontakt” has called upon the Moroccan Government to stop its policy of physically liquidating the Saharawi human rights activist and political prisoners in occupied Western Sahara as revenge for their political opinions.
In a press release a copy of which obtained yesterday night by SPS, the NGO said that the tragic death of Hasena El Wali, former Saharawi political prisoner, is “a terrible example of the desperate situation and constant ill-treatment faced by Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons.”
Afrika Kontakt called urgently on the UN and EU to send international experts to visit occupied Western Sahara to make “a thorough and independent investigation” in the circumstances of the death of the Saharawi political prisoner and an overall account of the status of human rights in the last colony in Africa.
The statement, therefore, asked Morocco to release all the Saharawi political prisoners, end its constant and systematic human rights violations committed against the Saharawi people, respect the Saharawi freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and to lift the ban against the Saharawi human rights organisations.
It also called on Morocco to stop banning the entrance of international observers, journalists and organisations that wish to visit Western Sahara to report about human rights.
The Saharawi human rights activist and political prisoner, Hasena Elwali Aleya, died Sunday night at local hospital in the occupied city of Dakhla, as a result of flagrant medical negligence. (SPS)
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