Question 37277 — foreign policy

Summary

Mr. Jean-Paul Lecoq alerts the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the extremely urgent situation of Mr. Haddi, on hunger strike since January 13, 2021 in order to protest against his execrable conditions of detention. Even if the minister knows precisely the situation in Western Sahara, it is extremely important to review France's position in order to take into account the terrible situation of the prisoners of group known as “Gdeim Izik”, named after this Sahrawi protest camp evacuated by force in November 2010 and which allowed the Moroccan occupying power to sentence 19 prisoners to sentences of up to life. Their conditions of detention are unbearable, to the point that the United Nations Committee against Torture has expressed concern on several occasions, notably pronouncing "provisional measures" aimed at safeguard the lives of these detainees so that Mr. Abbahah is no longer in complete isolation, that he can see the doctor of his choice, and that he is then released; so that Mr. Bourial can benefit from the same measures; and so that the lives of Mr. Laaroussi and Mr. Bani are preserved. To date, they have not been heard by the Kingdom of Morocco, even though such decisions come from a United Nations treaty body. The French lawyer for the Sahrawi prisoners of the “Gdeim Izik” group, Me Olfa Ouled, no longer has authorization to travel to Morocco despite repeated requests from the UN to grant her request. The major problem with this situation therefore concerns the lack of human rights monitoring by MINURSO. France has never supported this and it is time for that to change. The Minister has until October 2021, the date of renewal of the mandate of MINURSO, in order to negotiate the integration of this mission. Morocco's impunity cannot be eternal. The lives of many prisoners are at stake and, beyond that, the credibility of MINURSO is also at stake. Mr. Haddi's hunger strike is a desperate appeal for help to the international community, which the Minister must heed. He asks him if he intends to call on Morocco to comply with its international obligations requested by multilateral institutions, first and foremost the United Nations, and to work to integrate a “human rights” component into MINURSO in order to prevent the risk of a recurrence of such a situation.

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