Equipe Media- 25/05/2024
El Aaiun Occupied Western Sahara
Equipe Media reports continued harassment of Sahrawi activists held in Tiflet Prison, central Morocco.
Abdallahi Sidi Abbahah’s family said the prison administration restricts his daily one-hour outdoor break and harasses him in the canteen. Abbahah, one of four Sahrawi activists held in separate cells at Tiflet, was arrested in occupied El Aaiún in 2010 and subjected to torture.
Similarly, Tfarah Haddi, sister of detained journalist Mohamed El Amin Haddi, accuses the prison of neglecting his medical needs. She stressed that the prison director humiliates her brother and denies him treatment for his severe asthma, stemming from torture and poor conditions endured for nearly 14 years.
The Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA) condemns these actions as a deliberate attempt to harm detainees through medical neglect. They emphasize that these cases exemplify systematic abuses faced by Sahrawi political prisoners in Moroccan jails.
In late 2010, the Moroccan occupying authorities arrested the “Gdeim Izik” group. Following their arrest, reports of torture emerged. The group received sentences ranging from 20 years to life imprisonment. Many of them remain incarcerated in Moroccan prisons, located hundreds of kilometers from their families and communities.
