"TALK TOGETHER" CONDEMNS THE GREAT VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE OCCUPIED WESTERN SAHARA

Voices from all over the world are expressing their strongest condemnation to the continous repression against the peaceful people of Western Sahara in the occupied territories by morocco and also condemn the great violations of human rights in the occupied cities of the Africa´s last colony.
The British organisation, Talk Together, expressed deep concerns about the abduction and torture of two Saharawi young students, El Haouasi Nguia, a 19-year-old and Choummad Razouk, in a press release issued Sunday.The organisation, which runs programmes that bring together different sides of a conflict, to discuss their differences, said it is “deeply concerned by reports that a second member of its group of Layounne participants has been abducted and beaten by police”, reffering to the 20 years old student, Razouk Choummad, and El Haouasi Nguia, a 19-year-old young woman.Choummad, as it was well reported, was abducted by police on September 2, “blind folded, undressed, tortured for 5 hours, and covered in a liquid which he was told was petrol”.

The case of Choummad comes a week after his fellow participant, El Haouasi Nguia, a 19-year-old woman, was abducted, stripped, beaten and threatened with rape. She was also told by her Moroccan torturers “that the footage of the attack would be posted on the internet if she failed to renounce her political opinions and activities. Both students were reportedly quizzed about their planned attendance at the Talk Together programme”, Talk Together’s press release writes. The two young student were due to travel to the UK last month “to take part in the Talk Together conflict resolution course focussing on Western Sahara. A group of six young people from Layounne were prevented from boarding their plane at Agadir airport in Morocco, and subsequently detained and allegedly beaten by the authorities.

A second group of seven Moroccan students, plus their group leader, was also prevented from travelling from Casablanca”.“Talk Together is concerned for the well-being of both groups of young people and has sought advice from Amnesty International regarding their situation. Talk Together has written to the Moroccan authorities asking for clarification on the interventions which prevented the two groups from travelling to Oxford.
It is also requesting that the Layounne and Moroccan groups are reassured they will not be subjected to further attention from the authorities”, the press release further says.

Due to the absence of the Saharawi group from the occupied zones, and the Moroccan group because of the Moroccan authorities, only twenty two participants from the Saharawi refugee camps, and students from seven nationalities participated to a two week course about conflict resolution in Oxford.

These participants, Talk Together says “are now working on their projects to improve the situation”.