The Saharawi Women express our total solidarity with all the saharawis that are suffering in the moroccan prisons and condemn the flagrant violations of human rights and launch an appeal to the international community to assume its responsability for the life of the saharawis that are in hunger strike for more than thirty-four days as a protest of their inhuman situation. Rabab Amaidan is a young human righta activists from our country who is now studying in a swedish university and she has recently sent the following open letter to her brother who is in jail:
Rabab writes: "I try to keep my sweet memories alive.. try to remember when we used to play on the roof of our grand parents’ big house, or playing with the neighbors’ kids, or sometimes we fight each others and he used always to win the fight..! When he used to call me the “cross-eyed” or the “big-nosed” to make me angry..
I remember our devil plans to steal sweets from the kitchen without my mother knowing..
Many funny things make me smile when it comes to my mind.. But, quickly, the sad and horrible memory comes to banish my sweet ones..!
I remember the police chasing him, remember him hiding, remember them storming our small house, remember the screaming, tears, beatings and torture... I remember how much I hate Morocco..
My little brother is now Hunger Striking.. with the Saharawi political prisoners and prisoners of conscience all over the Moroccan prisons, some of them have started the strike since the 18 of March.
My brother has been sent urgently to hospital today and once again earlier this week because of his weak health situation..
Being in prison for four years now, in neglect, malnutrition, bad treatment by the prison guards; Besides, the loneliness of being in a Moroccan prison, in an area where another language is spoken, not even the Moroccan accent that we are familiar with, the one is spoken by the settlers in our country..
Being far from home, it is hard for the family and friends to visit him often... Those harsh experiences make the mountain fall in ruin as we express in "Hassania..!
I wish I were the one in prison and that he would be free.. at least I am elder than him and have had some good times in my life, it would be ok for me to get in prison..
But, he is younger and has been imprisoned twice in his life, in addition to the several times he was detained and tortured..
He lost his education career, his sweet teenage life, his health, his natural and moral growth...
Oh! it is killing me to see how huge his suffering is and I can do nothing to change his situation!
Sadly, my brother is only one example of hundreds of Saharawis that are suffering in Moroccan prisons and secret jails..! " finnishs Rabab Amaidan´s open letter to her brother in jail.
