SAHARAWI WOMEN CONDEMN THE REPRESSION AGAINST INTERNATIONAL OBSSERVERS

The Executive-Board of the Saharawi Women´s Association in Spain (AMSE) has hold an important meeting these days in which has discussed about the NGO´s future activities and also the current situation in Western Sahara and has published a new press release in which expresses the following:

The Saharawi Women Association in Spain (SWAS) expresses its strongest condemnation for the abuses suffered at the hands of the moroccan police against the international observers: three spanish citizens: Elizabeth Terrace, Pilar Fortuño, Emma Pomar and his partner, a Mexican citizen, Antonio Velazquez, in the Aaiún, Western Sahara.

As indicated by various medios and testimonies, the international observers were as tourists who "were visiting friends", the home of the famous Saharawi human rights activist, Ali Hammad Hmad, who returned from an International Conference on Human Rights hold in the capital Algeria, Algiers, organized by the Summer University of Boumerdass. In the incident in the occupied capital of Western sahra, El-aaiún, were also injured the saharawi human rights activists: Hmad Ali Hammad, Soultana Kheya and Brahim Sabbar.

Also, as denounced by the Spanish citizens were mistreated "threw us on the ground and stomped and spat on us" not only physically but they remained in a sort of "house arrest."

According to statements made by the Mexican Antonio Velázquez to Europa Press, the group moved to the headquarters to the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) in the Aaiún to lodge a complaint about his treatment by the Moroccan Gendarmerie and the Army since 22 August.

The Saharawi Women want to express our unconditional solidarity with all human rights activists who are imprisoned under systematic torture, to be part of peaceful resistance to the illegal Moroccan occupation and denounce the violation of human rights.

Also, since SWAS has launched, once again, an urgent appeal to all democratic governments of the world, especially the spanish one and all the human rights organizations to deploy their good offices for the Kingdom of Morocco to respect scrupulously the Rights Human in the occupied cities of Western Sahara, as you can see this vicious assault, is not only against the Saharawi population in the occupied cities living under a system of repression but also against international observers.