Saharawi political activist Mohamed Halab faces critical health conditions after 29 days on hunger strike and was already interned in Rabouni hospital.  The Moroccan authorities do not even let his family, who live in occupied Laayoune, visit him.

Mohamed Halab is a Sahrawi refugee who, aong with a part of the Saharawi people, survives in the refugees camps in Tindouf (Algeria). Born in the city of Laayoune in 1986, Mohamed Halab was forced to leave the occupied territory after the arrests and persecutions of the Moroccan Government because of their involvement in peaceful demonstrations.   Similar to the rest of Saharawi population, he was separated from his family and community by the so called “wall of Shame”, of 2,500 km, erected by Morocco King to prevent freedom of movement through its territory, forcing the many Sahrawi’s to live in exile and to survive thanks to humanitarian aid.

Halab began last March 7 the hunger strike after the Moroccan refusal to benefit from the Programme of Confidence Building Measures (CBM) supported by UNHCR. The decision to undertake this action was originated by the arbitrariness of excluding him from the family visit program. This was the second time that Mohamed Halab tried to visit his parents, three brothers and a sister living in Laayoune.

Following the illogical decision of the Government of Morocco, Mohammed is already on hunger strike since 29 days in the hospital of Rabuni and under pressure so that it abandons its attitude.

The protest of Mohamed Halab personified once more the incessant and unheard claim of an entire population trying to emerge from the nightmare of military occupation for more than 35 years, and whose right to come together with their families and relatives may not be subject of the arbitrary will of Morocco or the ineffectiveness of the international community to preserve it.  

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