ASADEDH condemns attacks on a dozen Saharawi students in Algeria

The Saharawi Association for the Defence of Human Rights (ASADEDH) has denounced and condemned the attacks suffered by a dozen Saharawi students living in a boarding school in the Algerian city of Mechriya.

ASADEDH published a press release in which it denounced the fact that these attacks were carried out by Algerian students invited by the director of the educational centre where the events took place ‘under the passive gaze of the Algerian authorities’.

The Association urges the Algerian authorities to guarantee the safety of ‘defenseless Saharawi students’ who suffer ‘daily harassment’.

Below is the ASADEDH press release: 

PRESS RELEASE 

The Saharawi Association for the Defence of Human Rights (ASADEDH) strongly denounces and condemns the attacks suffered by a dozen Saharawi students studying at a secondary school in the city of Mechriya (Algeria), at the hands of Algerian students invited by the school principal and under the passive gaze of the Algerian authorities. 

We therefore urge the authorities to guarantee the safety of the defenceless Saharawi students who are suffering this daily harassment while being more than a thousand kilometres away from their families living in the Tindouf camps.

We also request the solidarity of all human rights organisations and bodies to ensure that these acts of violence are not repeated.