{"id":954,"date":"2013-12-06T01:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=954"},"modified":"2013-12-06T01:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:27:19","slug":"moroccan-military-court-to-try-saharawi-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan military court to try Saharawi activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/giz-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-745 alignright\" alt=\"image of the group of Gdeim Izik political prisoners\" src=\"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/giz-1.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" 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-1-768x512.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: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, 29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2013, Saharawi political prisoner M&#8217;barek Daoudi was, unexpectedly, presented to the General Crown Prosecutor at the Permanent Court of the Royal Armed Forces in Rabat, where the 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0January 2014 was fixed as the date for his trial.\u00a0According to the \u2018Saharawi League to protect prisoners\u2019, Daoudi\u2019s lawyer was not present, and\u00a0the court appointed a different lawyer to provide legal assistance.<!--more--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On 28<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0September 2013, the Moroccan judicial police had appeared at Mbarek&#8217;s home at El Kharchi Street, in the centre of Guelmim, and arrested him together with his 17-year-old son. Both of them were then taken to the house of Daoudi\u2019s father in Legsabi, 10km from the centre of Guelmim, where police officers \u2018found\u2019 a weapon from the war against the French in 1936. According to Hassan Daoudi, Mbarek&#8217;s brother, the possession of this firearm was the official reason why Mbarek was arrested.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Despite the Moroccan authorities\u2019 promise not to try civilians in a military court, following a series criticisms by human rights organisations, particularly after the trial of the Gdeim Izik group, this case demonstrates that unfortunately, the Moroccan authorities are not keeping to their commitment.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">By Sidi Ahmed Fadel<\/span> \u00a0(ADALAUK)<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, 29th\u00a0November 2013, Saharawi political prisoner M&#8217;barek Daoudi was, unexpectedly, presented to the General Crown Prosecutor at the Permanent Court of the Royal Armed Forces in Rabat, where the 30th\u00a0January 2014 was fixed as the date for his trial.\u00a0According to the \u2018Saharawi League to protect prisoners\u2019, Daoudi\u2019s lawyer was not present, and\u00a0the court appointed a different lawyer to provide legal assistance.<\/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\/954"}],"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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}