Western Sahara News

Algiers Sidi M'hamed Court of misdemeanors will consider on July 23, the file of "embezzlement of public funds at the hospital of Beni Messous, where seven defendants, including a Moroccan national, and other staff in charge of distributing drugs on the heads of obstetrics services at the hospital, and Supervisor of a the pharmacy stakeholders, are involved in the issue of smuggling rare medicines and pharmaceuticals to Morocco, as they will answer questions by the judge of misdemeanors about their relationship with the charges of embezzlement of public funds and trading in rare medicines, then selling them to private illegally, and the smuggling of rare and expensive pharmaceuticals related to the surgery and narcotic drugs, and the misdemeanor of medicines theft after amplifying the requests of maternity services, and delivered the desired part for the services, and keep the rest for themselves. According to Echorouk sources, the department of Beni Messous hospital...

Algerian security forces foiled a plan to assassinate Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Khalil Al-Sisi following information about a terrorist attack planned by Ansar Sharia group, Egyptian reports said on Sunday. According to Egypt’s Yaoum Sabe3 newspaper, Cairo foiled an organized terrorist attack which targeted sovereignty places such as ministries and security headoffices in the capital. Egyptian Algerian intelligence cooperation helped to foil the attacks which were planned at the same time with Al-Sisi’s inauguration. The newspaper cited an “Algerian reliable source,” saying Algeria’s security forces conveyed a detailed report to the Egyptian intelligence about Ansar Sharia’s plan. The group operates in North Africa and has connections with organizations in Sinai. The report says Ansar Sharia cooperated with terrorist organizations in Egypt to attack Arab embassies, ministries and security headoffices in Cairo. Ansar Sharia’s activists have very sophistic...

Friday, July 18, 2014 I urge you to read this hit piece about the Polisario Front by Michael Rubin:   Arab Spring Comes to Polisario Front? I have  written here  before about the Polisario Front, a Cold War throw-back and authoritarian cult funded by the Algerian military regime as a tool against Morocco. The Department of Homeland Security classifies the Polisario Front as a  terrorist group . Polisario leaders seek to cloak themselves in a shroud of anti-colonial legitimacy saying they are fighting for a Sahrawi state in the Western Sahara, a former Spanish colonial territory now autonomous under Moroccan control. That is enough for many leftist journalists and progressive academics to embrace them, and even President Obama  took a photo  with the Polisario Front’s autocratic leader, but the reality is their constituency is tiny and growing smaller every day. While the Polisario imagines themselves leading a state, the sad truth is the...

Listes établies par l’ASDHOM le 17 novembre 2012 et réactualisées au fur et à mesure. Pour établir ces listes, l’ASDHOM s’est basée sur les données et les informations publiées par les sites (http://solidmar.blogspot.com, www.ecrirepourlesliberer.com, http://vdbunem.blogspot.fr, etc.), sur les correspondances avec les amiEs militantEs de l’UNEM, de l’AMDH, d’ATTAC-Maroc ou sur les informations publiées sur les réseaux sociaux par les ONG des droits de l’Homme (AMDH, CODESA, Amnesty International, HRW, FIDH, RSF, etc.). Les journalistes, les chercheurs et les militants des droits de l’Homme peuvent utiliser librement ces listes et fiches (Word) à condition de citer, comme nous l’avons fait, les sources. C’est un minimum d’honnêteté intellectuelle requis. Dernière mise à jour : le 05 juillet 2014 Cliquer sur le nom du détenu pour accéder à sa fiche (certains n’ont pas encore de lien hypertexte) Les noms suivis de la petite enveloppe  sont déjà parrainés. I- Groupe ...