Morocco jails two young men trying to see Haidar
Accordingdenounced the Polisario Front, uniformed and plainclothes Moroccan police obstructs access to the nearby home of the activist. Visit
Haidar at his home in Laayoune, which was returned on December 17 after spending 32 days on hunger strike in Lanzarote, has become a risky venture. The Polisario Front denounced Monday the Moroccan police sent to prison two young men Saturday who were protesting the "police cordon" that exists in the streets adjacent to the building where Haidar lives with his mother and two children.
addition, a third young man was "detained and tortured" for hours in a police station in Laayoune, said Omar Bulz, Polisario Front spokesman in the Canaries.
Bulz explained that uniformed and plainclothes Moroccan police obstructs access to the nearby home of Haidar Saharawi activists or people who can not prove that they live in that area, very close to the old market English city.
a situation which led to protests in the streets over the weekend, said the spokeswoman said. "The police crackdown has been brutal," he added Bulz which was as Emoutawakil Daich of 16 years and Belawi Yasen, 20, were arrested and sent on Saturday called 'Dark Prison' in El Aaiun, where they admitted many of the 60 Saharawi political prisoners, according to Polisario. Bulz said the two young men were "forcibly removed" from their own homes, which are in the same neighborhood as Haidar.
Another young woman, Fatma Sbai, 20, was "detained and tortured" on Friday in the provincial police station in Laayoune, after trying to enter the house of Haidar. "She has not entered prison, but signs of torture were visible on the face and arms," \u200b\u200bhe explained Bulz.
The Polisario Front today put these events in knowledge of all NGOs operating in Tindouf Algerian territory home to thousands of Sahrawi refugees.
As Haidar, told Bulz remains weak and only walks inside his house, although there is no order so it can not leave their home. "Aminatu - snapped Bulz-ate soup two days ago and I feel very bad, since I could not reach her by telephone."
The Moroccan Government, for its part, denies that fundamental rights are infringed on its territory. Before the latest incidents of Laayoune, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Taib Fassi Fihri said in Rabat that opponents of territorial integrity of the Kingdom are turning to the instrumentalization of human rights issues as "strategic management to hide the accomplishments and achievements of Morocco at international level following the presentation of the project of autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty" , as recorded by today's news agency Maghreb Arabe Presse in Morocco.
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