The Saharawi Women would like to express their deep gratitude for the italian municipality of Sesto Fiorentino in Toscana region, for granting the honorary citizenship to the Sahrawi human rights activist, Aminatou Haidar, and also we express our congratulations to Mrs. Haidar for this distinction which means a recognition to her peaceful struggle for freedom and justice in the last colony in the african continent: Western Sahara.
The Common Council of the Italian City of Sesto Fiorentino, unanimously decided to grant honorary citizenship to the human rights activist of the Saharawi people, Aminatou Haidar, indicated a statement issued 0n Thursday, January, 15tth.
According to the statement, the honour was a recognition and expression of the great solidarity of Sesto Fiorentino with the Sahrawi human rights activist, who is peacefully defending the right of her people to self-determination and freedom.
Already nominated for the European Parliament's Sakharov prize for her efforts as an ambassador of peace, Aminatou Haidar has been a victim of repression by the Moroccan government - repeatedly detained, imprisoned and tortured – and recently returned after a sensational hunger strike that lasted for more than a month, the statement added.
The statement considered Aminatou Haidar as a symbol of struggle of the saharawi people, which is divided for more than thirty years part of whom was forced to live in refugee camps and the other part is living in the under the illegal moroccan occupation where the saharawi people is facing every day flagrant violations of human rights which has been condemned several times by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch among others.
The Common Council of the Italian City of Sesto Fiorentino, unanimously decided to grant honorary citizenship to the human rights activist of the Saharawi people, Aminatou Haidar, indicated a statement issued 0n Thursday, January, 15tth.
According to the statement, the honour was a recognition and expression of the great solidarity of Sesto Fiorentino with the Sahrawi human rights activist, who is peacefully defending the right of her people to self-determination and freedom.
Already nominated for the European Parliament's Sakharov prize for her efforts as an ambassador of peace, Aminatou Haidar has been a victim of repression by the Moroccan government - repeatedly detained, imprisoned and tortured – and recently returned after a sensational hunger strike that lasted for more than a month, the statement added.
The statement considered Aminatou Haidar as a symbol of struggle of the saharawi people, which is divided for more than thirty years part of whom was forced to live in refugee camps and the other part is living in the under the illegal moroccan occupation where the saharawi people is facing every day flagrant violations of human rights which has been condemned several times by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch among others.
