The Political Committee of the Sahrawi National Council condemned the disgraceful practices, the attack on human dignity, and the suffocating siege imposed on the Sahrawi human rights activist and fighter, Sultana Sayed Ibrahim Khaia and her family, in the occupied city of Boujdour.
In a press release, the Political Committee called for a move to lift the siege and the manifestations of oppression and continuous restrictions imposed on the Sahrawi fighter and her family, since November 19, 2020, calling on “all human rights activists and living consciences in all parts of the world to support the steadfast family in the face of the arrogance, brutality and violations of the Moroccan occupation.”
At a time when the Committee held the United Nations in its various bodies “fully responsible for the miserable human rights situation and the escalation of violations against Sahrawi citizens, under Moroccan occupation,” it affirmed its absolute solidarity with all Sahrawi civilian prisoners in the prisons of the Moroccan occupation, and the hunger-striking political detainee, Mohamed Lamine Hadi, whose fate remains unknown.
In a related context, the Political Committee of the Sahrawi National Council “strongly” condemned the deportation of the civilian prisoner and Sahrawi human rights defender Yahya Mohamed Al-Hafidh Azza, to an “unknown destination”.
It stressed that the Sahrawi people “will remain steadfast in the face of the crimes of the Moroccan occupation, no matter what crimes are committed against them,” adding that this will not discourage the determination of the continuing resistance until the end of the Moroccan occupation and the extension of national sovereignty over the entire Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
In the context of condemnation of what Sultana Khaya is subjected to, the Sahrawi Commission against the Moroccan Occupation condemned, in a statement, the repressive methods imposed on the Sahrawi fighter and her family and the right of every Sahrawi who tries to approach her home for support and solidarity.
The communiqué said that “The Sahrawi Commission against the Moroccan Occupation is following with great concern what a member of the militant organization, Sultana Khaya, and her family are subjected to from the systematic inhuman repression by the Moroccan forces of repression, which did not content themselves with the siege of the house for more than eight months and preventing citizens from visiting the family or even approaching them, but even exceeded that with verbal and physical attacks and the use of bags filled with toxic substances and throwing them inside the house, which caused many health problems for those present in it, in addition to the instability of their health condition and the possibility of serious complications in the coming period, which is “a barbaric behavior that reflects the bullying of the Moroccan security services in dealing with all Sahrawi citizens.”
For its part, the Sahrawi National Commission for Human Rights warned the Moroccan occupation authorities against disregarding the lives of the Sahrawis, considering the recent attack on the Sahrawi fighter Sultana Khaya, in which toxic substances were used, as a “complete crime in attempting systematic killing”, denouncing the disregard for these crimes by UN institutions and mechanisms.
In a statement, the committee condemned the brutal crime by the Moroccan occupation authorities against the family of Sayed Ibrahim Khaya in the occupied city of Boujdour, declaring its solidarity with them and with all those who sympathize with them and with the victims of the Moroccan oppression machine.
In its press release, the committee alerted international public opinion to the seriousness of the human rights and humanitarian situation currently prevailing in the occupied areas of the Sahrawi Republic, especially in light of the escalation in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity after November 13, 2020, after the flagrant violation of the ceasefire by Morocco and its military aggression against the sahrawi people.
