Sahraoui Human Rights Watchdog denounces attack on a family in Rabbouni camp in Tindouf

The Sahraoui Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ASADEDH) has issued an official press release denouncing the “harsh repression suffered” by the Maichan family in front of the premises of the General Secretariat of the Polisario Front in the refugee camp of Rabbouni, in Algeria.

 

ASADEDH exposes the alleged abuses committed by the Polisario militias against the inhabitants of the Tindouf camps who do not agree with the theories of the separatist leaders, commented the Spanish news outlet, atalayar.com, which reported the news and published the full press release issued by ASADEDH.

 

“We denounce, condemn and show our strongest repulse to the harsh repression suffered by the Maichan family, in front of the General Secretariat of the Polisario in Rabbouni, while they were demonstrating peacefully,” said the Sahraoui human rights watchdog.

 

According to the press release, the events took place Monday August 9, 2021, when the Maichan family and people supporting them demanded the immediate evacuation outside the camps of their son injured in hostilities several months ago and who was practically blinded, contrary to the treatment reserved to children or relatives of the Polisario ruling class, who are immediately evacuated abroad.

 

ASADEDH holds Algeria responsible for this repression as its Government “allows these violations of elementary rights and this wave of repression against our civilian and defenseless population, which occur on its territory at the hands of the Polisario.”

 

The association called on all human rights defenders to show solidarity with the Maichan family and their seriously wounded son.