The Saharawi political prisoners, Mohamed Tamek and Houcein Jdey, started a hunger strike, on Tuesday, asking for the amelioration of their conditions of detention in the local prison of Tiznit, as well as their legitimate rights guaranteed by International Conventions as prisoners of opinion.

The Moroccan penitentiary authorities persists in the rejection of the legitimate claims of the Saharawi political prisoners, a source from the Saharawi Ministry of Occupied Territories and Communities indicated.

The Saharawi political prisoner, Mohamed Tamek, was arrested in April 2006 in Assa (south of Morocco) because of his participation to peaceful demonstrations advocating Saharawi people’s right to self-determination. He was condemned to 4 years imprisonment in a first trial, then to 2 years in the Moroccan colonial court of appeal.

With regards to Houcein Jdey, he was arrested in November 2006 in Goulimine (South Africa) because of his political activities in favour of POLISARIO Front. E was condemned to 2 years imprisonment in the first trial, a sentence that was confirmed in the colonial court of appeal, it should be recalled.

On the other hand, Moroccan police agents abducted on Thursday the Saharawi citizen, Boueijaa Mohamed, from his house in the occupied city of Smara. He was transported in a police car, tortured and abandoned in the desert few kilometres from Smara

On her part, his wife who tried to help him during the abduction was tortured by the Moroccan police before some young Saharawis helped her out, the same source added.