{"id":1621,"date":"2015-01-28T00:21:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T00:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2015-01-28T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T00:21:42","slug":"adala-uk-welcomes-an-awareness-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=1621","title":{"rendered":"Adala UK welcomes awareness campaign for journalist Mahmoud El Haisan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adala UK welcomes an awareness campaign, initiated by Portuguese journalists, focusing on the Saharawi journalist and political prisoner Mahmoud El Haisan, who is currently serving an 18 month prison sentence in El Aiun\u2019s Black Prison. The campaign calls on journalists worldwide to demonstrate their solidarity with Mahmoud by signing the below letter addressed to Ban Ki-Moon, General Secretary of the United Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Portuguese journalists, as well as colleagues from Spain and Syria, will send the letter to Ban Ki-Moon with a copy to all members of the UN Security Council as well as to the Moroccan Ministry of Justice, asking for the UN\u2019s assistance in this case. They continue to receive signatures and Adala UK would like to encourage other journalists to sign the letter in solidarity with their colleague Mahmoud El Haisan.<\/span><\/div>\n
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H.E. Ban Ki-Moon, General Secretary of the United Nations,<\/p>\n

We, the undersigned, appeal for your intervention in the case of the Saharawi journalist Mr. Mahmoud El Haisan, currently detained in the Black Prison of Laayoune in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mahmoud El Haisan, correspondent for RASD TV, a local TV station in Western Sahara, was\u00a0abducted on 4th July 2014 at 03.30 by four Toyota Prado with over 20 uniformed and plainclothed agents of the Moroccan authorities in uniforms, in front of his house on Menzuar Street, Laayoune. This is contrary to all international conventions to which the Kingdom of Morocco subscribes and a clear violation of the Human Rights\u2019 Charter. He was taken to the Police Station in Laayoune, brutally beaten and tortured by the agents on duty and taken to the Black Prison.<\/p>\n

He was accused in the first instance\u00a0of being part of an armed mob and of attacks against Moroccan authorities during the celebration of the results of the Algerian football team on 26th and 30th June.<\/p>\n

Mr. El Haisan was on both occasions filming the celebrations and the actions of the Moroccan authorities who attacked the\u00a0Saharawis who celebrated the result of the Algerian football team by exhibiting the Algerian and Saharawi flags and wearing the Algerian football team t-shirt.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mahmoud El Haisan was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He has serious health issues that are aggravated daily due to the torture he has suffered several times during his incarceration and the sub-human conditions in Laayoune’s Black Prison.<\/p>\n

The arbitrary detention and threats that Mahmoud El Haisan suffered are a clear example of the Moroccan state\u2019s repressive regime against Saharawi journalists working in the Occupied Territories.<\/p>\n

We appeal to you to put pressure on the Kingdom of Morocco to free Mr. Mahmoud El Haisan.<\/p>\n

Respectfully,<\/p>\n

Carmen Marques – Journalist, Portugal<\/p>\n

Artur Louren\u00e7o – Photographer, Portugal<\/p>\n

Bruno Raposo – Photographer, Portugal<\/p>\n

Myriam Zaluar – Journalist, Portugal<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Carlos Soares \u2013 Journalist, Portugal<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Mussuaili \u2013 Journalist, Portugal<\/p>\n

Wilson Silva \u2013 Journalist, Portugal<\/p>\n

Margarida Silva \u2013 Journalist, Portugal<\/p>\n

Jomah Alqasem, Journalist, Syria<\/p>\n

Gabriel Corbacho Bermejo\u00a0 – Journalist-lawyer, Spain<\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda de los \u00c1ngeles Cuenda Gago – Journalist-\u00a0political scientist, Spain<\/p>\n

Leticia Dorta Lemus – Journalist, Spain<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Luis Jim\u00e9nez Navarrete – Journalist, Spain<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez Guerra – Journalist, Spain<\/p>\n

Manuel Minero Gonz\u00e1lez – Journalist, Spain<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Oropesa Rodr\u00edguez – Journalist, Spain<\/p>\n

Sergio Rodrigo Ru\u00edz – Journalist, Spain<\/p>\n

Maria do Carmo Pi\u00e7arra – Journalist, Portugal<\/p>\n

Paulo Caetano \u2013 Journalist, Portugal<\/p>\n

Rached Redwan, Filmmaker, Spain<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9 Manuel Gomes Mendes \u2013 Journalist, Portugal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adala UK welcomes an awareness campaign, initiated by Portuguese journalists, focusing on the Saharawi journalist and political prisoner Mahmoud El Haisan, who is currently serving an 18 month prison sentence in El Aiun\u2019s Black Prison. The campaign calls on journalists worldwide to demonstrate their solidarity with Mahmoud by signing the below letter addressed to Ban Ki-Moon, General Secretary of the United Nations.<\/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\/1621"}],"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=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}