{"id":1135,"date":"2014-06-03T11:36:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T11:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2014-06-03T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T11:36:15","slug":"political-prisoner-receives-prison-sentence-in-unfair-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"Political prisoner receives prison sentence in unfair trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1136\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/abdallah-boukyoud-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1136\" src=\"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/abdallah-boukyoud-1.jpg?w=298\" alt=\"Abdallah Boukyoud\" width=\"249\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/abdallah-boukyoud-1.jpg 386w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/abdallah-boukyoud-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/abdallah-boukyoud-1-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Abdallah Boukyoud<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Following an unfair trial at the court of appeal in Agadir, Morocco, a 4-year prison sentence was imposed on the Saharawi political prisoner Adbalah Boukiod (28). Prior to his trial, Adbalah had spent seven months in detention in Ait Melloul prison in Agadir.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">He had been detained by Moroccan police, on the road connecting the cities of Smara and El Aiun on 27<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0October 2013, due to his participation in peaceable demonstrations in the city of Golmim in Southern Morocco at the end of September 2013. The cause for these demonstrations had been the death of a young Saharawi man called Rashid Shin, who had been shot by Moroccan police in Assa, in Southern Morocco (Adala UK reported on this incidence in September 2013). \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Family members of Adbalah Boukiod, who have spoken to Adala UK, have confirmed that Adbalah appeared in court whilst being on hunger strike. He had started this on 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0May, in protest against the maltreatment and torture at the hands of the police which he was subjected to in prison, as a result of repeating slogans, demanding the Saharawi people\u2019s right to self-determination, in the courtroom.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Meanwhile, Morocco continues to deny the existence of political prisoners from Western Sahara, alleging that \u2018nobody has ever been punished for simply expressing their opinion, even when this is contrary to that of the authorities.\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Adala UK calls on the Moroccan government to free all political prisoners, who are imprisoned simply for peacefully expressing their political convictions. Adala UK is very concerned about unfair trials for non-violent political prisoners, such as that of Adbalah Boukiod, during which \u2018evidence\u2019 obtained under torture is used as the basis for harsh prison sentences.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an unfair trial at the court of appeal in Agadir, Morocco, a 4-year prison sentence was imposed on the Saharawi political prisoner Adbalah Boukiod (28). Prior to his trial, Adbalah had spent seven months in detention in Ait Melloul prison in Agadir. \u00a0 He had been detained by Moroccan police, on the road connecting the cities of Smara and El Aiun on 27th\u00a0October 2013, due to his participation in peaceable demonstrations in the city of Golmim in Southern Morocco at the end of September 2013. The cause for these demonstrations had been the death of a young Saharawi man called Rashid Shin, who had been shot by Moroccan police in Assa, in Southern Morocco (Adala UK reported on this incidence in September 2013). \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}