WEEKLY NEWS

 

WEEK 43

21-27 October 1996

 

Headlines

Symposium about torture in Morocco

Morocco: diplomatic offensive

Manifestation of young Sahrawis

Honors for the Polisario

 

 

20.10.96
Symposium about torture in Morocco

Several former detainees of Tazmamart (Morocco) spoke about there experience of 18 years of detention under inhuman conditions at a symposium about torture, organized by OMDH (Organisation Marocaine des Droits de l'Homme) at Casablanca. Some international organizations and Moroccan physicians participated to this meeting, devoted to the psychologic and medical effects of torture. OMDH means to open a medical center for victims of torture and European, American and Arabic specialists explained their experiences in this domaine. (EFE)

23.10.96
Morocco: diplomatic offensive

Morocco leads actually a diplomatic offensive in South America and Africa, in order to bring governments to cancel their recognition of the SADR. The offensive begins to bear fruit, Burkina, Congo, and now Sao Tome and Principe cancels their recognition of the Sahrawi Republic, and Peru suspends its relations. Actually 72 countries around the world, 30 in Africa and 24 in South America recognize the SADR.

25.10.96
Manifestation of young Sahrawis

About 60 young Sahrawis of Tan-Tan (South Morocco) began on Monday 21 a sit-in before the townhall to ask for employment. The population of Tan-Tan and the neighbour region of Gulimine considers they are disadvantaged compared to the inhabitants of Western Sahara, who have many advantages like: double pay in the official function, sheapness of basic products subsidized by the government, and where about 1000 young Sahrawis are paid as civil servants without working (EFE).

26.10.96
Honors for the Polisario

Valencia attributes its annual October Prizes (Premis d'Octubre) in its XXVth edition. They have an important resonance in all Catalunya, Valencia and Spain. The Prize of the International Solidarity of this edition goes to the Frente Polisario. To pick up the prize Mohamed Abdelaziz went to Valencia. Some meetings with people who support Sahrawi people take place.

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