The Women from western Sahara express their total supportt and solidarity with the so-called Ali-Salem Tamek´s Team who are a group of very well-known saharawi human rights activists who are in moroccan jails since nearly one yera ago.
We, the Saharawi Women support their just struggle and ask for their unconditioned release because we are sure that they haven´t committed any crime and they are accussed by the moroccan government only because they have visited their family and their people in the Saharawi Refugee Camps.
Today, septermber 13th, the have published the following statement:
We, three Saharawi human rights activists who’ve been in jail for over 11 months without being charged nor tried, have decided to start a 48 hour hunger strike on 15 September 2010. We demand a either a fair trial or their unconditional release.
On April 28, 2010, we suspended our open-ended hunger strike which lasted forty-one days, as a response to the commitment of the Moroccan authorities to put an end to our emprisonment (the temporary release of three of our comrades was part of that commitment), which we considered as a positive sign and a first step towards ending our arrest for expressing our opinion in peaceful ways.
However, the continuation of our arrest against the urgent demand of all the Moroccan and international human rights organisations and international public opinion, which call for our release without any condition embodies the Moroccan authorities blind revenge of our group because of our opinions and our human rights and civil activities.
In contradiction to the international law that guarrantees the right to fair trial in logic and acceptable periods of time, the Moroccan authorities have neither started the preparations for our trial despite the 11 month-period of our emprisonment nor have they yet decided to release us.
Thus, we call all the democracy advocators, the human rights organisations in the world to support us in order to exert pressure on the Moroccan state to release all the human rights defenders and political prisoners in different Moroccan prisons.
The three Sahrawi prisoners of conscience, human rights defenders,
- Ali Salem Tamek, prison number 50010
- Brahim Dahane, prison number 50014
- Hammadi Naciri, Prison number 50015
September 13, 2010
The Local Prison of SaléSalem Tamek´s Group who
