Last week, the Saharawi political prisoner Ali Salem Tamek, imprisoned at Salé, received a visit from the president of the Moroccan Observers of prisons, Mr Abderrahim Jamâi, who informed himself about prison conditions at the prison of Inezegan, where Tamek had previously been held. On 6 January, a delegation from the Ministry of Justice also paid him a visit to discuss the same subject.
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Summary of two reports
Saharawi political prisoners Ahmed Nassiri and Salek Bazeid (members of the Forum of Truth and Justice, Sahara branch) now detained in the prison of El Ayoun, will begin a 48-hour hunger strike on 13 January. They announced that they would have recourse to other forms of protest until their claims concerning the status of political prisoners and improvement in visiting rights are satisfied.
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Western Sahara Weekly News, 5-11 January 2003
Summary of report
Moroccan Communications Minister and Spokesman for the Government, Nabil Benabdallah, said that the Government of Morocco is ready to listen to all proposals James Baker will make and will adopt a suitable standpoint in this regard. Morocco remains attached to the Moroccan identity of the Sahara and any political settlement likely to consecrate (sic) Moroccan sovereignty over the southern provinces.
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The former Secretary of State, James Baker, has been getting nowhere with his mediation between Morocco, Algeria and the Polisario (Western Sahara - now under Moroccan occupation) for a long time. Separatism, even by Moslem national groups, has never been tolerated by Arab dictators and the King of Morocco is no exception to the rule. An American victory in a war with Iraq might give Baker more clout to persuade the Moroccans, always providing he will want to use it.
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