PUSL.- Walid Al-Salik, Saharawi journalist was sentenced yesterday, 9th of October, to six year in prison in the Moroccan appeal court of El Aaiun, capital of occupied Western Sahara.
The Saharawi journalist and human rights activist was accused of the usual non proven charges of “attacks on public officials, putting up roadblocks and throwing of stones against police officers”. The Moroccan authorities resort always to the same accusations regarding Saharawi activitists and journalist but without ever bringing forward in trial any evidence or proof other that the documents written by the police and/or false confessions.
Al-Salik was arrested on the 7th of June this year with two other activists that the Moroccan authorities brutally beat at the reception of the political prisoner and journalist Salah Lebsir, who was released the same day.
As can be seen in the video below the young activists and journalist Al Salik did not attack anyone but were brutally beaten in the middle of the street by more than a dozen police agents in civil clothing and uniform. The three Saharawi citizens were intercepted in their car by a group of agents of Moroccan auxiliary forces armed with batons that attacked them, pushed them out and beat them repeatedly.
After the brutal intervention in Smara, Walid Al-Salik was transferred on June 10 to the city of El Aaiun and presented to the court of appeal to the investigative judge.
Walid al-Salik Albatal is for now detained in the black prison of El Aaiun in the occupied territories of Western Sahara but will probably be transferred to the Moroccan Kingdom in clear violation of the IHL (International Humanitarian Law) as it is common practice by the Moroccan occupation forces.
