DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> Indépendance et Paix pour Le peuple Sahraoui: OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION A Saharawi NGO denounces the against a Saharawi journalist in the occupied El Aaiun

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dimanche, novembre 26, 2006

OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION A Saharawi NGO denounces the against a Saharawi journalist in the occupied El Aaiun


El Aaiun (occupied territories), 25/11/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Gross Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH) denounced on Friday "the savage aggression" perpetrated on Tuesday by Moroccan police agents against the Saharawi journalist, Dahi Mohamed Salem, indicated a press release issued by the Saharawi NGO the same day, of which SPS received a copy.
The Saharawi journalist, who works in the Moroccan newspaper 'el Watan', has affirmed having been aggressed by agents of the Moroccan police in a police station where he was led by a police patrol "without any legal reason", the text says He was insulted, beaten and interrogated about his articles on the question of the Western Sahara, and his interviews to some Saharawi human rights activists such as Mr. Sabbar Brahim, the Secretary General of the ASVDH now in detention in the notorious Carcel Negra (Black Jail) since June the 17th 2006, the press release stressed.
Mr. Dahi Mohamed Salem, who is also a member of the Forum Truth and Justice Western Sahara Section (FVJ) and member of the Section of the Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) in the occupied El-Aaiun, declared he has presented a complaint to the General Persecutor of the king on Wednesday the day after he was aggressed. (SPS)

020/090/110/TRD 25 Nov 06 SPS