The President of the Republic denounced the condemnation of the Saharawi journalist Moustapha Abd Dayem

The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaiz, denounced Wednesday the condemnation by the Moroccan colonial court of the Saharawi journalist and writer, Moustapha Abd Dayem, to 3 years imprisonment and 50.000dh fine. "Denouncing this repressive systematic practices against this young Saharawi, we would like to recall you that the Moroccan government is still imprisoning more than 40 Saharawi political prisoners, only because they demanded the implementation of the UN’s resolutions for the decolonisation of Western Sahara and self-determination for its people", Mr. Abdelaziz wrote in a letter to Ban Ki-Moon. "The latest news we have report that the Moroccan authorities had transferred the Saharawi prisoners of conscience, Moustapha Abd Dayem, to the civil prison in the Moroccan city of Inzegan while they still detain the Saharawi citizens, Mohmed Elhachachi and Abd Dayem Mokhatr Naji without judgment", the Head of the Saharawi State regretted. IN this respect, the Saharawi President exhorted the UN Secretary General to exercise pressure on Morocco so as to unveil the truth on the fate of more than 151 Saharawi prisoners of war and more than 500 victims of "disappearance" since the beginning of the Moroccan invasion of the territory in 1975, the letter adds. He further called to the immediate and unconditional release of all the Saharawi prisoners of conscience maintained in the Moroccan prisons. Last week, it should be recalled, POLISARIO Front reiterated the call on the UN "tp include the protection of the human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara in the mandate of the MINURSO" (UN Mission for the organisation of a referendum in Western Sahara), it should be recalled.

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