On 10th December, the International Day of Human Rights and the first anniversary of its being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the European Union (EU) renewed its fishing treaty with Morocco. The EU negotiated the treaty with Morocco, turning a blind eye to the serious and systematic human rights violations perpetrated...
The Committee of Families of the Gdeim Izik Political Prisoners reports that the Sale 1 Prison administration have today moved the political prisoner LAROUSSI ABDELJALIL to Soussi 2 Hospital. His condition is life-threatening and he has been admitted to hospital alongside...
On Friday, 29th November 2013, Saharawi political prisoner M'barek Daoudi was, unexpectedly, presented to the General Crown Prosecutor at the Permanent Court of the Royal Armed Forces in Rabat, where the 30th January 2014 was fixed as the date for his trial. According to the ‘Saharawi League to protect prisoners’, Daoudi’s lawyer was...
The following Saharawi political prisoners, who were arrested in connection with the Assa events and who are imprisoned at Ait Meloul prison in Morocco, will be tried in the court of Agadir on 9th December 2013: 1. CHOUIAAR BRAHIM 2. BOULGHADIAN GHALI 3. CHOUIAAR HASSAN 4. BOUJEMAAELHAISAN IZZA 5. CHEKRAD YAHDIH 6. ELHAIBA MOULAY KAISS 7. MESTAGHFAR AYOUB 8. JGHAGHA MOHAMED...
10 November 2013: A message from the GDEIM IZIK GROUP In response to the serious condition that our fellow political prisoner LAROUSSI ABDEJALIL is suffering (caused by hypertension that is continuously elevated at 26/13, in addition to...
2 November 2013 Over the last few days, the political prisoner LAROUSSI ABDELJALIL LEMGHAIMAD suffered a significant deterioration of health, suffering continual nose bleeds and elevated blood pressure which yesterday was registered as 22/12. As a result of pressure and calls...
31 October 2013 The political prisoner LAROUSSI ABDELJALIL LEMGHAIMAD this evening was again suffering from the effects of high blood pressure which caused further nosebleeds. Given that the prison authorities have failed to acknowledge the seriousness of this situation, which can...
38 years ago, on 31 October 1975, the Moroccan invasion of Western Sahara took place with tanks and armored vehicles entering the territory from Hauza and Djederia, east of Smara. The Moroccan regime diverted attention away from the...
Today we received news that LAROUSSI ABDELJALIL LEMGHAIMAD, one of the political prisoners from the Gdeim Izik group, who is currently serving a life sentence, suffered a serious deterioration in his state of health. He has high blood pressure, which today...
The well-known Saharawi human rights activist MBARAK DAOUDI, who was abducted together with his two sons in the city of Gulemin a month ago, and who is known to have been taken to the secret Salé prison,...