After several views more or less rough-and more than a year behind bars, now awaiting the sentencing in the Court of First Instance of Ain Sbaa (on the outskirts of Casablanca) the trial of Brahim Dahane, president of the Association Saharawi Victims of Grave Human Rights (ASVDH) Ali Salem Tamek, vice president of Codesa (Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders, a group led by Haidar) and Ahmed Naciri, Sahrawi activist from the city of Smara. However, the judge has announced that the verdict was postponed until 11 February. The activists, prisoners in jail in Casablanca Oukacha have not appeared today in court. “There are no sentences for these mercenaries,” he told the newspaper one of the lawyers for the prosecution in the courtroom, where this time there have been no incidents like last October ended in a pitched battle against dozens of Moroccans Some Saharawi and Spanish journalists present in court.
On leaving the court, a small group of Moroccan and Moroccan flags waving peacefully after a poster that claimed the Moroccan Western Sahara, shouting slogans against the Polisario Front and pro-Moroccan autonomy plan proposed at the United Nations (UN) to the disputed territory.
Dahane, Tamek and Naciri-the three heads of major organizations that defend human rights in Western Sahara, are behind bars for more than a year and three months pending the Moroccan courts decide their position.
They were arrested on foot runway at the aerodrome Mohamed V in Casablanca, the economic capital, last October, when returning from a trip to the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf (in Algeria). Morocco then accused them of treason and undermining the security of the State and his case was transferred to military jurisdiction, which according to associations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International I could have even sentenced to death, given that Morocco maintained in their codes but not implemented since 1993.