{"id":744,"date":"2013-02-25T03:49:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=744"},"modified":"2013-02-25T03:49:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T03:49:12","slug":"adala-strongly-condemns-sentences-of-24-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Adala strongly condemns sentences of 24 political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/giz-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-745\" alt=\"giz\" src=\"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/giz-1.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/giz-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/giz-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/giz-1-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/giz-1-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/giz-1-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6006\"><strong>During the night of 16th\/17th February, a Moroccan military court passed sentences on 24 Saharawi political prisoners who were arrested in connection with the Gdeim Izik protest camp in 2010. 8 received life sentences, 14 were sentenced to between 20 and 30 years in prison and 2 were sentenced to two years and three months, the time they had already spent in prison. \u00a0<!--more--><\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6005\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6084\"><strong>Morocco \u00a0tried the prisoners in a military court which did not meet international standards for a fair trial, despite calls to bring the prisoners before a civilian court which would meet international human rights standards. Furthermore, the prisoners&#8217; claims of being subjected to torture during their imprisonment were not investigated further. According to international observers, the trial was heavily flawed from them outset.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6085\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6085\"><strong>This week, the UN Human Rights Council also expressed concern at the use of a military trial court to try the 25 Saharawi civilians and at the lack of investigation into reports that the prisoners had been tortured and ill-treated during the pre-trial period.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6085\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6085\"><strong>We call on the international community to put pressure on the Moroccan authorities to investigate the prisoners&#8217; torture allegations and to give them the opportunity of a fair trial in a civilian court.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6086\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6086\"><strong>Here is a link to some further information on the amnesty international website:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6087\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6089\"><strong><span id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6088\" style=\"font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;\">http:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/news\/morocco-convicted-sahrawis-must-receive-fair-trial-2013-02-18<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6089\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1361470706969_6089\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;\">Your Adala UK Team<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night of 16th\/17th February, a Moroccan military court passed sentences on 24 Saharawi political prisoners who were arrested in connection with the Gdeim Izik protest camp in 2010. 8 received life sentences, 14 were sentenced to between 20 and 30 years in prison and 2 were sentenced to two years and three months, the time they had already spent in prison. \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\/744"}],"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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}