Free Mohamed Daddach

APPEAL
FOR THE LIBERATION OF MOHAMED DADDACH AND ALL SAHARAWI POLITICAL PRISONERS SENTENCED BY MOROCCAN COURTS

Since the invasion of Western Sahara by Morocco in November 1975 the Saharawi population in the occupied territories has undergone a policy of systematic repression by the Moroccan authorities.

These authorities deny the existence of Saharawi political prisoners and only recognise  the detention of one 'prisoner of common law' - namely Mohamed Daddach, arrested in 1979, sentenced to death in 1980 (commuted to life imprisonment in 1994) and still held in Kenitra central prison. He is recognised as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International and international human rights organisations consider him to be the longest standing Saharawi political prisoner.

Since September 1999, the date when the Saharawi population rose up again against the Moroccan occupation, dozens of Saharawi citizens were arrested and condemned arbitrarily to heavy sentences by Moroccan courts. According to our information, M Daddach and 25 other Saharawis are still in prison for having defended, in different ways, the right of their people to self-determination and freedom. They are therefore all held for political reasons and their prison  situation is very precarious.

It concerns: Daddach Sidi Mohamed (llife ), Laâroussi Mohamed und Laâroussi Bachir (15years of prison), Malainin Abderrahman ould Mouhamed ould Saleh (10 years), Dah Cheikh and Moussamih Laârbi (2 years ), Louloud Mohamed Ali (4 years ), Laghzal Brahim, Messaoud Laârbi and Khaya Cheikh (4 years ), Saleh Elghazouani (10 years ), Boussoulla Hassana andBachir Tounssi (7years), Haidan Alisalem and Beilla Sidimahfoud (5years), Rejaâ Brahim (5 years), Abdelliha Bouknou, Berdellil Houcine, Bekri Abdessalam, Chakourri Omar, Jemâa Mohamed Yahdih, Bouguenna Mouloud, Belhaj Mohamed Mustapha and Kezzhar Mohamed Fadel (2 years ), Bahaha Salek (4 years ), Ayach Baba Yaddih (2 years.

This is why we are launching an international campaign to demand their immediate liberation by the Moroccan authorities, and to ask the UN - whose troops have been present in the region since 1991 and who have never at any moment intervened to protect the Saharawi civil population from Moroccan repression, that it should impose on Morocco respect for international conventions and that all Saharawis which it has imprisoned should be freed.
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Sign this appeal before December first 2001

The undersigned ask the Moroccan authorities for the immediate liberation of Mohamed Daddach (Kenitra prison) and the 25 other Saharawis imprisoned in Marrakech and El Ayoun.