The Saharawi Women want to express their fourceful condemnation to the continous violations of human rights perpetrated by the moroccan army in the occupied cities of Western Sahra. The moroccan police abducts torture and leave a sahrawi minor naked in the outskirts of the occupied city of El Aaiun. This young saharawi girl is Enguía El Hawassi.Sources from the occupied capital of Western Sahara, El Aaiun, indicated to UPES that the Moroccan police abducted, tortured and left the Saharawi girl, Nguia El Haouassi, in the outskirts of the city.The 19 years old girl, it should be recalled was one of the six Saharawi students who were supposed to participate to a students encounter organised last August 5 to 18 by the British organisation Talk Together in Oxford.
The young girl told human rights defenders that she was stopped by Moroccan police, headed by the famous Moroccan torturer, Aziz Anouch, around 9 o’clock in the evening, while she was walking in the street in Matallah especially that in the nights of Ramadan citizens stay late in the streets.The policemen forced her in their car and blindfolded her.
They drove her to an unknown place outside the city, naked her and started beating her and insulting her, threatening her of rape if she doesn’t cooperate.According to her testimony, her torturers were asking about the reasons behind her attention to participate to the Oxford youth encounter organised by Talk Together, her relation with Saharawi human rights activists and her political opinion about the Moroccan occupation and the independence of Western Sahara.She also confirmed that all the interrogatory was filmed, and that an officer told her that he will make sure that the film is put on the internet, and that next time he will himself make sure to kill her with his own hands if she doesn’t give up her political opinions and her activities as a student in secondary schools against the Moroccan occupation.
After five hours torture, the torturers left Nguia alone in the dark at about 2 o’clock in the morning, completely naked. She had to walk and fortunately found a Saharawi family to help her and take her to El Aaiun to her family house.
It should be recalled that this is not the first time Nguia is arrested and tortured, she had many bad experiences with the Moroccan police since she was 14, but she had always refused to submit to the colonisers will, and is always heading demonstrations and confrontations with the Moroccan authorities in the occupied city of El Aaiun.
Last August, Nguia El Haouassi was prevented along with five other Saharawi youth from travelling to Oxford, London, where they were expected to participate to a youth debate about the conflict in Western Sahara.The six Saharawi students were then arrested, beaten and forcibly deported in police cars from the airport of Agadir to El Aaiun.
Amnesty International registered the case then, but no further action was undertaken by international organisations to protect these young students who had been threatened and intimidated by the Moroccan police, who will certainly take revenge of them later, Saharawi human rights defenders estimate.
