Several Saharawi NGOs, active in the field of human rights in Western Sahara, have denounced the repressive practices of the Moroccan authorities against the delegation of activists, and former Sahrawi political prisoners who returned from Algeria after attending the second Pan-African Cultural Festival, held in Algiers July 05 - 20 2009.
A group of Saharawi defenders of human rights, among them was the saharawi woman, Soukeina Djedahlou, whwn they were coming from Algeria were arrested last friday on their arrival in the moroccan airport of Casablanca for several hours, during which they underwent a series of procedures on the part of the Moroccan Police and Customs, the same sources affirmed.Sahrawi human rights activists have denounced that the police have confiscated, at the airport, books dealing with the question of Western Sahara, belonged to Mr. Larbi Masaud and Ali Salem Tamek, Prizewinner, Jose Antonio Carballo III in June 2005.
Invited by the Algerian National Committee of Support to the Saharawi people (CNASPS), the ten former Sahrawi political prisoners and activists of human rights had denounced on the sidelines of the PANAF festival in Algiers, violations of human rights by the authorities of Moroccan occupation and advocated for the Sahrawis to self-determination.The group of activists of human rights includes: Ennaâma Asfari, Soukeina Jidehlou, Ali Salem Tamek, Hmad Hamad, El Mami Amar Salem, Brahim Dahan, Sid Ahmed Lemjeyed, Larbi Messoud and Nassiri Hamadi, it recalled. SPS
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