Freedom for the prisoners of the AMDH and all political prisoners

north africa | repression / prisoners | other libertarian press Saturday February 09, 2008 01:36 by Central Committee of the AMDH - The Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH)

The Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) is organizing a national
week of action (from February 13-19) with the slogan: Freedom for the
prisoners of the AMDH and all political prisoners.

The Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) is organizing a national
week of action (from February 13-19) with the slogan: Freedom for the
prisoners of the AMDH and all political prisoners.

The Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) has decided to organize a
national week of action under the slogan: “Freedom for the prisoners of
the AMDH and all political prisoners,” from the period of the 13th to
the 19th of February, 2008.

This campaign's main objective is to strengthen the pressure in order to
obtain the freedom of the eight prisoners, all members of the AMDH, and
the acquittal of the other 13 members of the AMDH on provisional
liberty. They are either awaiting trial (the three from Sefrou) or have
been tried and are waiting the sentence of appeal (the nine from Bni
Mellal); the 13th member of the Midelt section, could be imprisoned any
moment now, since his appeal was denied and has been convicted of a year
in prison for attacking the “sacred values of the kingdom.”

The campaign also has the objective of freeing the remaining old
political prisoners of the Hassani era, some of which have sent nearly a
quarter of a century in prison, the release and acquittal of the group
of prisoners connected with the social unrests of September 23rd, 2007
in Sefrou and in January, 2008 in Boumalne Dades, the Saharan political
prisoners, the student prisoners, the prisoners of conscience unjustly
imprisoned in the anti-terrorist campaigns, and a number of citizens,
victims of the famous accusation of attacking the sacred values of the
kingdom or accusations that effect public and individual liberties.

This campaign is organized by the AMDH in conjunction with the National
Petition of Solidarity with the May Day Prisoners and their democratic
friends, at internal and external levels, and central and local. It will
include informational actions as well as militant ones: conferences,
round tables, communiques, petitions, meetings, rallies, hunger strikes
both inside and outside the prisons, any legitimate action that can
result in the definitive freedom of the political prisoners.

The political imprisonment, one of the most notable features of the
'Years of Lead'*, has seen a significant regression towards the end of
the last kingdom; but has gained new impulse since 2003, which confirms
that Morocco is still under the influence of the Makhzení State and has
not acceded to the regulations of the State of Law and to a society of
citizens; impossible access on the other hand, to provide with a
democratic constitution, both in the development and in the content and
of its implementation.

As a result, the Central Committee of the AMDH calls upon democratic
women and men to join the campaign for freedom and to guarantee its
success, not only in order for those unjustly imprisoned to regain their
complete liberty, but also to advance towards the construction of a
State of Law, towards a society of free citizens, equal, in solidarity,
the only framework with the condition to guarantee the respect for human
rights in its entirety and its universality.

Rabat, 4th of February, 2008
Central Committee of the AMDH

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_%28Morocco%29]

For more info:
http://www.amdh.org.ma
http://www.insad-1mai.blogspot.com/