Morocco World News/ MAP
Morocco World News/ MAP
Casablanca, July 7, 2011
A sit-in was organized, on Wednesday, in Casablanca by several national and international organizations in solidarity with Sahrawi activist Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud, the Maghreb Arab Press news agency has reported today.
This solidarity act aims to support Mustapha Salma, who continues to hold a sit-in front of the office of the UNHCR inNouakchottto draw the international community’s attention to his suffering and push for a rapid solution to his tragic situation after he was separated from his family in Tindouf camps by the Polisario militias.
The participants in the sit-in chanted slogans calling for the immediate reunion of the Sahrawi militants with his family and expressing commitment to continue protests until he fully gets his rights.
The protesters also expressed their solidarity through holding several awareness raising campaigns to shed light on the suffering of Mustapha Salma, who was persecuted by the Polisario administration for the only fault of publicly voicing support for Morocco’s autonomy initiative as a lasting solution to theSahara conflict.
Despite the suffering he is enduring in the sit-in, Mustapha Salma seems to be determined to continue his fight until he manages to join his family and relatives.
In April 2010, Mustapha Salma visited the southern city of Smarafor the first time in 30 years, and declared that the Autonomy Plan presented by Morocco in 2007 is “the ideal solution” to the conflict.
On his way to the Tindouf camps, on September 21, he was kidnapped by the Polisario militia and imprisoned in the desert for 71 days.
He now seeks to return to the camps to join his family but is being denied access.
