PUSL.- Saharawi political prisoner, Mohamed Bourial of the Gdeim Izik group started on the 1st of March 2022 an open hungerstrike.
Mohamed Bourial who has a 30 years sentence, is currently detained in Ait Melloul prison in Morocco, over 600km from his homelands capital El Aaiun.
Detained since 2010, Bourial has been victim of torture and consistent ill treatment, harassment and medical neglect.
Mr. Bourial spends 23 hours per day in his cell in prolonged solitary confinement.
In protest against this arbitrary punishment and sistematic ill treatment Mr. Bourial decided to start an open hunger strike.
His family made a video denouncing the situation and appealing to all international organizations to take a stand to protect and free Bourial and all Saharawi political prisoners.
“On the occasion of International Women’s Day. I would like to congratulate and salute the Sahrawi women for their fight and resistance.
Our son from is starting a hunger strike which we are following with great concern, because we haven’t heard from him for a long time but we know that he is suffering from several illnesses and that he is treated badly in the Moroccan prisons
We ask the international organizers to defend the Human Rights Defenders and putting pressure on Morocco for the release of our sons who are in prison only for having claimed the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and freedom!”
