Carta de Europarlamentarios a Lady Catherine Ashton - CEAS

Carta de Europarlamentarios a Lady Catherine Ashton
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De Coordinadora Estatal de Asociaciones Solidarias con el Sáhara
Fecha de publicacion : Viernes 18 de noviembre de 2011
Carta de Europarlamentarios a Lady
Catherine Ashton
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Carta de Europarlamentarios a Lady Catherine Ashton
Carta del Intergrupo de Amigos del Sáhara en el Parlamente Europeo a la alta representante de la Unión para
Asuntos Exteriores y Política de Seguridad.
Your Excellency,
please allow me to write to you as the President of the European Parliament's Intergroup for Western Sahara. The
intergroup is a cross-party group of over 60 MEPs supporting a just, peaceful and lasting solution of the Western
Sahara conflict. I am writing to raise the current issue of human rights abuse within the non-self-governing territories
of Western Sahara.
We have been informed by representatives of Frente Polisario about 21 human rights defenders, who have been on
hunger strike in Sale prison near Rabat in Morocco on 31 October 2011.
These activists were arrested in October last year due to their participation in a peaceful protest for self-determination
near El Aaiun in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
They are demanding their right to a fair trial or to be unconditionally released and that their rights are respected within
the prison.
The Collective of human rights defenders (CODESA) in Western Sahara reported that some of the prisoners are in
poor health and are not receiving the medical care they are in need of.
Furthermore these prisoners are subjected to a military court but since they are civilians, they should not appear
before a military court.
According to Amnesty International Report 2011, Saharawi prisoners are even tortured with the most common
methods in prison.
The European Parliament has repeatedly expressed its concern about human rights in the territories of Western
Sahara. We condemn the latest abuses and therefore call on the High Representative Baroness Ashton to take
action on this case.
We hope for your cooperation in this important matter.
Sincerely yours,
Norbert Neuser, MEP
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