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Abduction and rape of a Saharawi girl

Sunday 23 February 2009, 7pm, Maatallah district of

Laayoune/Western Sahara

Walking through the Maatallah district I am surprised by six

plain clothed policemen led by the famous torturer MohamedEl Hassouni, known by the name of Moustache who forceme to get into their vehicle. When we get close to the CollegeAllal ben Adellah they blindfold me and handcuff my handsbehind my back.

I wanted to know the reason for this abduction. The one calledEl Aalaoui said that I had gone beyond the limits by meetingEuropean human rights defenders, particularly the latest

encounter with the French woman, Michle Decaster in thepresence of Nguia El Haoussi.

Throughout the journey I receive slaps and kicks, I was not ina good psychological situation, but I was aware that someyoung Saharawis were following us in a car, they had noticedthat the police had kidnapped a Saharawi; at that momentthey threw me down by their feet and put their hands over mymouth.

We waited a while before the arrival of the officers, includingthe famous Abd El Aaziz Anouche, nicknamed Taouhimawho ordered them to undress me and two of them held myhands while Aziz fondled my breasts and kissed me on themouth. I tried to resist but I lacked the strength.

Afterwards he began to interrogate me on my relations withcertain human rights activists, in particular Djimi El Ghalia,

Brahim Dahan, Brahim Sabbar and Rabab Amaidan; he also

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asked me about the graffiti on walls in the Maatallah districtand the reception organized by the Saharawis for the activistHmad Hammad at the end of the previous month.

Then he threatened to rape me and to bury me alive and alsothreatened to dismiss my father from his job and to kidnap myyounger brothers.

On the subject of my involvement in distributing leaflets in thecollege Laayoune 3, he threatened and intimidated me tomake me give up my studies; then he ordered the police torape me behind with one of their batons: I will never forget thattragic and inhuman image!

They handcuffed me again, this time hands and feet together,then it is Abd El Aaziz Anouch who interrogates me onceagain on my relationship with the activist Ahmed Sba and onthe preparations for the celebration of the 33rd anniversary ofthe foundation of SADR. They threatened to kill me if I postedmy statement on the internet.

Then they set me free me beside the Hassan II hospital after

having stolen the 100 dirhams I had on me.I decided to make this statement so that activists everywherecould intervene, because silence on these crimes would be anencouragement for the torturers to continue to commit more.

Hayat RGUIBI