infos from The Western Sahara

Distress call
Of the children of SABBAR Brahim


Following the unlimited hunger strike that the sahrawi political prisoners started, among them SABBAR Brahim, since September 04, 2006, which caused many diseases destroying, gradually, the bodies weakens of those prisoners, we, daughter and sons of SABBAR Brahim, sahrawi prisoner of opinion in the terrible black prison in El-Ayoune, ex-disappeared in Kalaat M’Gouna, SABBAR Afaf (12ans), SABBAR Afan (8 years) and SABBAR Salah Eddine (4 years), launch an urgent and pressing call to all the organizations of human rights to act to save the life of our father and his comrades and to make pressure on the State of Morocco to answer their right claims.
Our father suffers from a dangerous degradation of his health, at the physical level as well as at the psychological level, following the hunger strike and the repercussion of ten years passed in the secret penitentiary of Kalaat M’gouna.
The family of SABBAR lived, at the time of his forced disappearance, terrible moments. His parents, Hamoudi and Mahjouba, were victims of psychological torture, since they were not allowed to see their son and to have his news. In the same way, his sisters, Fatimatou and Aicha had been victim of a nervous fall during a long period. His mother, during this sad and painful experience had lost the ability to talk and began again to speak only with the release of her son in 1991.
Our father was also victim of intimidation, torture and arbitrary arrest since his release in 1991 until his arrest on June 17, 2006. He was condemned in a first lawsuit to two years of firm prison. His brother SABBAR Limam, also, had been tortured and thrown outside the city of El-Ayoune, July 20, 2006, for only and single reason: to be the brother of SABBAR Brahim.

Girl and wire of SABBAR Brahim
Afaf, Afan and Salah Eddine SABBAR
El-Ayoune occupied - the Western Sahara
September 22, 2006