Article in Le Courrier on the situation of Sahrawi prisonners by Benito Perez
“Inquiétudes pour les détenues sahraouis” – 27.09.2017
Link to the article : http://ouiso.recherche.parisdescartes.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2019/10/20190927-CM-Courrier-Geneve.pdf
Human rights : Moroccan reprisals against Claude Mangin and her husband, the Sahrawi activist Nâama Asfari, are worrying UN experts. At the instigation of its Commissioner Ana Racu, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) announced this summer that it would be visiting Moroccan prisons. Since 2016, and the condemnation of Rabat by this UN body, Mr Asfari and his eighteen comrades have seen their conditions of detention deteriorate. Serving a thirty-year prison sentence, Nâama Asfari has only been able to see her wife once in three years. The Frenchwoman, deported again on her arrival in Morocco last July, was at the Palais des Nations in Geneva last week to press ahead with new individual complaints to the UN Committee against Torture (CAT).
• ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS
Report of the 42nd session of the Human Rights Council, Intervention of Claude Mangin-Asfari on 17th September 2019 at 11h : La crise des droits humains au Sahara Occidental
Report of the Sahrawi Political Pirsonners Protection League, September 2019 : Situation des 19 prisonniers politiques sahraouis de Gdeim Izik
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