Friday, 1 January 2010

Last group of seven Sahrawi detainees brought before military court in Rabat


Rabat (Morocco), Jan 1, 2010 (SPS) - The last group of the seven Sahrawi political prisoners, detained in sale prison, Morocco, was brought before a prosecutor in a military court in Rabat, human rights sources reported.

It concerned, according to the sources, Ahmed Nasiri, Degja Lashgar and Yahzih Taruzi.

Like the previous group, the three detainees were presented before the prosecutor as a part of a detailed investigation in the event of their arrest after being kidnapped by the Moroccan intelligence services in Mohammed V airport in Casablanca, immediately after they arrived from the Houari Boumediene Airport in Algeria, on the grounds of their visit to the Sahrawi refugee camps in the period from September 26 to October 06, 2009.

On the other hand, the Ministry of the Occupied Territories confirmed that the psychological and physical health status of Sahrawi political prisoner Degja Lashgar, brought Thursday before the prosecutor, remains very worrying, expressing fear to evolve for the worse, if her treatment and examination by a specialist continued to be neglected in an isolation cell in the local prison of Sale.

The seven detainees asserted, during preliminary and detailed interrogation, their visit to the Saharawi refugee camps was of human and familiar aspects and that their arrest only an attempt by Morocco to fabricate charges of political nature against them.

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