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	Ali Salem Tamek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While Ali Salem Tamek is originally from the town of Assa in southern Morocco, he supports Sahrawi self-determination in occupied Western Sahara, and has emerged as one of the most outspoken Sahrawi dissidents under Moroccan rule.
		Tamek wishes Western Sahara to become an independent state under the auspices of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, an exiled government functioning in Polisario-controlled areas of Western Sahara and in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria.
		On December 14, 2005, Ali Salem Tamek was sentenced to 8 months in prison by a Moroccan court in El-Aaiún.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ali_Salem_Tamek (444 words)

	Western Sahara - Sahara Occidental -Droits humains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Ali Salem Tamek, the Sahrawi human rights activist and former prisoner of conscience, is uncounted for since Monday, July 18, 2005.
		While asking about Ali Salem Tamek in the Judicial Police center and in the central police station in El Ayun in Smara street, his aunt and cousin were informed that Ali Salem is not there and they do not know where he is. Tamek's relatives were cruelly treated and shouted at by the police agents.
		The family of Tamek was not even informed by their son's abduction until they heard it on the media.
	www.arso.org /intifadatamek190705.htm (243 words)

	SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE
		Ali Salem Tamek: My main claim is the same for all Saharawis, in particular national independence and the existence on the territory the Saharawi Republic, which has all the characteristics of development, progress and democracy.
		Ali Salem Tamek: It is unavoidable to resume to war if we take into consideration the stubbornness of the kingdom of Morocco and its attempts to erect all kind of obstacles to stop the referendum of self-determination.
		Ali Salem Tamek: I would told him that Spain has a political responsibility in the tragedy of the Saharawi people, and that his country is asked more than ever to remedy to the situation it incontestably engendered.
	www.spsrasd.info /sps-e060505.html (3081 words)

	A Brief record of the life of Ali Salem Tamek, activist in the field of Human rights and unions
		Ali Salem Tamek is considered as the main spokesman of the office of the Occidental Sahara annexed to the Forum of Truth and Justice on the issue of human rights of the Sahraouis.
		According to the committee his freedom requires that a petition of "Royal amnesty" be submitted, which Ali Salem Tamek refused definitely as he expressed it in a number of interviews with the Moroccan press.
		Ali Salem Tamek complained to the General Procurator of the Court of Appeal of Rabat to investigate on that case.
	www.wsahara.net /03/tameksynop.html (4259 words)

	WSO \| Free prisoner of conscience Ali-Salem Tamek
		The Action Committe for the release of Ali Salem Tamek and all Saharawi political prisoners is concerned that Mr.
		Tamek's life is increasingly at risk and continues to call for his immediate and unconditional release as a prisoner of conscience.
		Finally, Tamek expressed his solidarity with all the Saharawis detained in the El Ayoun prison, requests that they be set free and that the truth concerning the fate of the disappeared Saharawi be established.
	www.wsahara.net /02/tamekcoverage.html (1736 words)

	Untitled Document
		Ali Salem Tamek's health is critical as he suffers from different kinds of illnesses such as rheumatism, asthma, stomackache, intestines and other skin diseases.
		Ali Salem Tamek, The Sahrawi human rights activist and former political prisoner, was abducted on Monday, July 18, 2005 at 17:30 at the airport of El Ayun.
		Having gathered in the human rights activist, Ali Salem's Square, the Sahrawi masses were chanting pro-independence slogans, holding the SADR flags, calling for the pulling out of the Moroccan state from the Western Sahara and demanding the release of the Sahrawi political prisoners, headed by the human rights activist, Aminatou Haidar.
	www.vastsahara.org /intifadaold.html (8810 words)

	The Militant - December 8, 2003 -- Saharawi fighter addresses Polisario congress from jail
		Tamek, 29, has been imprisoned since August 2002 on a two-year sentence for “threatening the interior security of the state and affiliating to the organizations of the Polisario Front.” He is one of 16 Saharawi political prisoners currently held in Moroccan jails.
		On Aug. 26, 2002, Tamek presented Moroccan authorities with a petition demanding to be allowed to run in the legislative elections as a representative of a newly formed party, the Unified Socialist Left-Wing Party, which includes among its members a number of former political prisoners.
		Tamek is also a member of the Forum for Truth and Justice Western Sahara Section, an organization founded in 2000 to expose internationally the brutality of the Moroccan regime.
	www.themilitant.com /2003/6743/674358.html (1325 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Western Sahara rights activist arrested (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Ali Salem Tamek was arrested on Monday upon his arrival from Europe at Laayoune airport in Western Sahara, a Moroccan government source said.
		Tamek was freed last year under an amnesty by King Mohammed VI after spending nearly 15 months in jail over his alleged support for the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, which seeks independence in the northwest African desert territory.
		Tamek will be brought before the courts once the inquiry has been completed, Morocco's official MAP news agency said.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/DDB7FEDA-9B25-42FA-B3B6-6AA33F854E3D.htm (397 words)

	EiTB24.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Ali Salem Tamek was arrested upon his arrival from Europe at Laayoune airport in Western Sahara, a Moroccan government source told Reuters by telephone.
		Tamek was freed last year under an amnesty by King Mohammed after spending nearly 15 months in jail over his alleged support for the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, which seeks independence in the northwest African desert territory.
		Tamek will be brought before the courts once the enquiry has been completed, Morocco's official MAP news agency said.
	www.eitb24.com /noticia_en.php?id=76548 (425 words)

	Western Sahara - Sahara Occidental -
		This is happening through the fierce campaign against the Sahrawi militant and human rights activist, ALI SALEM TAMEK, conducted by many Moroccan papers and fake associations, and recently by the Arab Maghreb News Agency on May 3rd, 2005.
		ALI SALEM TAMEK, a trade union and human rights activist, was already deported to the north of Morocco, sacked of work and arrested three times : 1993- 1997- 2002 ; and was denied the right to get his passport for more than 10 years.
		The latter pushed some five relatives of Ali Salem Tamek to launch a deceptive and attacking press release, on May 3rd, 2005, describing him as "traitor" and "an outlaw".
	alisalemtamek.site.voila.fr /aTamek050505.html (479 words)

	Western Sahara - Sahara Occidental -
		The MAP (the Moroccan Press Agency) published, onThe MAP (the Moroccan Press Agency) published, on 3 May, on its homepage a communiqué whose authors, using the name of the family Tamek, sought to condemn Ali Salem Tamek in the name of the family.
		The objective of the regime is obvious: to discredit Ali Salem and to prevent him from exercising his legitimate rights mainly the freedom of expression and freedom of movement, and hence to deprive him of his rights as a human rights activist and of his associative rights and so on.
		We recall that it is the same State that is responsible for the death of martyr Lahcen Tamek murdered in Rabat on 21 May 1977.
	alisalemtamek.site.voila.fr /aTamek060505e.html (266 words)

	MEI: Rumblings in Western Sahara
		Tamek is a sick man who needs to rest.
		But some other activists are wary of Tamek’s approach, believing he undervalues the very type of organization that trained him — he first emerged as a trade unionist.
		Then Ali Lmrabet, a renowned Moroccan journalist who was imprisoned for breaching the press laws, interviewed Abdelaziz for a Spanish paper shortly after the small Moroccan newspaper al-Bidawi had run a pared-down interview with the Polisario leader.
	meionline.com /features/313.shtml (1401 words)

	The Militant - February 2, 2004 -- Morocco frees 12 Saharawi patriots
		Tamek is a founder of the Forum for Truth and Justice, Western Sahara section.
		Tamek, who was arrested in August 2002, was charged with “threatening the interior security of the state and affiliating to the Polisario Front.” The latter is the organization that has led the Saharawi independence struggle since it was founded in 1973.
		Ali Salem Tamek spoke to the Polisario congress even from prison, showing that Morocco is not able to crush the resistance or silence their voices.” Fadel was referring to greetings from prison Tamek gave by telephone to the Polisario Front’s 11th Congress last October.
	www.themilitant.com /2004/6804/680410.html (1069 words)

	afrol News - Saharawi prisoners released from Moroccan jails
		Among the released were Ali Salem Tamek, a prominent advocate of the self-determination of the people of Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
		Mr Tamek, who was sentenced to two years imprisonment on 24 October 2002, "on breach of national security charges," last year was granted a political prisoner status after several hunger strikes and threatening to self-immolate by setting himself on fire.
		Mr Tamek was sentenced to prison for his stated belief that Western Sahara should be an independent state and over allegations of having received funds from the Saharawi independence movement, Polisario.
	www.afrol.com /articles/10726 (640 words)

	Untitled Document
		Aminatou Haidar, Ali-Salem Tamek, Mohamed El-Moutaouakil, Houssein Lidri, Brahim Noumria, Larbi Messaoud and H’mad Hammad
		The acitivist Lakhal Mohamed Salem was arrested and interrogated at the principal police station in Smara street and released at 04:30 a.m.
		Tamek's health is deteriorating very seriously because of the open-ended hunger strike he is going on together with the other 36 Sahrawi political prisoners and human rights activists, calling the Moroccan state for the achievement of their demands immediately.
	www.vastsahara.org /intifada.html (14152 words)

	SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE
		Six Saharawi human rights defenders, who came to receive Tamek, were denied entry to the airport and were expelled manu militari, so as not to attend the abduction, it was said.
		The beginning of Mars, the Saharawi human rights activist and former political prisoner, Ali Salem Tamek, is carrying a visit to Europe so as to raise European public opinion’s awareness on Moroccan authorities’ flagrant human rights violations in occupied territories of Western Sahara and south Morocco.
		In Brussels, M. Tamek, also President of the local committee of support to the international campaign for human rights’ protection in the Western Sahara, has been received in the seat of the European Parliament, in May the 3rd 4th, by deputies of different countries, especially from Austria, Spain and Sweden among others.
	www.spsrasd.info /sps-e180705.html (665 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Founded in the humanistic tradition of the Helsinki Accord, the aim of the Rafto Foundation is the promotion of the fundamental human rights of intellectual and political freedom and free enterprise.
		The winner of the Norwegian RAFTO Human Rights Prize 2002, Sidi Mohamed Daddach, calls for the release of Ali Salem Tamek and Aminetou Haidar and all the Saharawi prisoners of conscience imprisoned after the Intifada of independence that started last May, according to the news agency SPS.
		Ali Salem Tamek had been arrested July 18 upon arrival at Laayoune airport after an extended stay in Europe where he had spoken publicly of recent events in Western Sahara and advocated independence for the territory.
	www.rafto.no /DesktopModules/ViewAnnouncement.aspx?ItemID=178&Mid=42 (694 words)

	Israel: Farmers prohibited from picking olives in the West Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Ali-Salem Tamek is a prominent activist in the Western Sahara branch of the Forum for Truth and Justice -- an association set up in 1999 to campaign for the rights of victims and families of victims of torture, "disappearances" and other human rights violations.
		He was sentenced on 10 September 2002 to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 Moroccan dirhams (about US $1,000) for "undermining the internal security of the state".
		The second was a statement made by three former Sahrawi prisoners of conscience during questioning by Moroccan security forces in 1999 that Tamek received funds from the Polisario Front, the pro-independence movement based in neighbouring Algeria.
	www.hrea.org /lists/hr-headlines/markup/231002.php (707 words)

	War On Want : Urgent actions : Western Sahara update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Human rights activist Ali-Salem Tamek has been imprisoned for two years in Morocco for "undermining the internal security of the state".
		Tamek's conviction was based on his belief that Western Sahara should be an independent state, and a statement made by three former Saharawi prisoners of conscience during questioning of Moroccan security forces in 1999.
		Allegations were also made that Tamek had received funds from the Polisario Front, the pro-independence movement based in Algeria.
	www.waronwant.org /?lid=2690 (651 words)

	afrol News - Your Portal to Africa!
		- The trial of 29-year-old Ali-Salem Tamek comes at a time when an alarming number of Sahrawi civil society activists, many of whom are perceived to have pro-independence tendencies, are being persecuted by the Moroccan authorities, the human rights group Amnesty International today stated.
		Ali-Salem Tamek is a prominent activist in the Western Sahara branch of the Forum for Truth and Justice - an association set up in 1999 to campaign for the rights of victims and families of victims of torture, "disappearances" and other human rights violations.
		The second was a statement made by three former Sahrawi prisoners of conscience during questioning by Moroccan security forces in 1999 that Mr Tamek received funds from the Polisario Front, the pro-independence movement based in neighbouring Algeria.
	www.afrol.com /html/News2002/wsa023_free_tamek.htm (700 words)

	Call for intellectual integrity from Morrocan intellectuals - International Rights and Freedoms - Indymedia Ireland
		The wife of Ali Salem Tamek one of the prisoners at heart of the crises has applied for Spanish political asylum.
		The present location of all those prisoners has not been revealed with the exception of Ali Salem Tamek who is known to be at the Moroccan prison of Ait Melloul.
		ali salem tamek is now on hunger strike.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=70928 (7341 words)

	'Morocco expels Norwegian journalists' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Aftenbladet editors had earlier said they did not know why the two were being expelled, but added that they had met with an opposition leader whom the newspaper bosses could not name.
		Communication ministry officials said the two Norwegians, a reporter and photographer, had met with Ali Salem Tamek, an activist from Western Sahara who has actively campaigned for a referendum on self-rule to be held in the territory, in the south of Morocco.
		Tamek was among 33 prisoners freed in January after King Mohammed VI pardoned them.
	www.benadorassociates.com /pf.php?id=5230 (474 words)

	Sahara Analysis 31 (050204) - human rights successes, MINURSO latest
		Among the 33 were the French-Moroccan journalist Ali Lmrabet, and 12 Saharawis including Ali Salem Tamek, Salek Bazeid, El Moussawi Dkhill and others.
		Tamek : "I will not give up my struggle for human rights" (SPS, El Watan-Algeria) Tamek reminded El Watan (Algeria) that "more than eight saharawi political detainees are still in prisons, among whom Sid Ahmed Heddi Keïman who is in the fl prison of El Aaiun.
		In a show of Saharawi cultural traditions, they were greeted on the outskirts of town by a rider on a white camel, and a line of traditionally- dressed schoolgirls who presented the freed political prisoners with bowls of camel's milk.
	www.talkaboutgovernment.com /group/alt.politics.org.un/messages/19891.html (1405 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Rabat pulls Aljazeera reporter's permit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The decision to cancel Razaq's permit was made after Aljazeera aired an interview in Paris with a Polisario activist who accused the Moroccan authorities of abducting pro-independence activist Ali Salem Tamek.
		The Moroccan authorities have denied abducting Tamek, saying he was summoned by the judicial authorities for interrogation on charges of involvement last month in riots in Laayoun, the largest town in Western Sahara.
		The director of the Communications Ministry, Fatiha al-Ayadi, told Aljazeera that it was not the first time Razaq had violated the code of ethics and accused him of sympathising with the separatists.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/91D86765-2161-4344-BA7E-3E3642E57079.htm (290 words)

	Polisario Front demands UN action on Western Sahara
		Meanwhile, the online Arabic News reports the Polisario Front is threatening to resort to "terror acts" against Morocco, citing comments made by Saharawi tribesman Ali Salem Tamek in the May 29 edition of the Spanish daily El Mondo.
		Ali Salem Tamek reportedly said he was preparing for attacks on Morocco under the orders of Polisario chief Mohamed Abdelaziz.
		But Arabic News makes its biases clear, writing that Tamek was expelled by his Ait Oussa tribe "for advocating the separation of the Moroccan Southern provinces, known as the Sahara, from the rest of the Kingdom..." (No government on earth recognizes Moroccan soveriegnty over Western Sahara.)
	www.ww4report.com /node/534/print (574 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Omar Azziman Ministre de Justice Ministère de la Justice Place Mamounia Rabat, Morocco Dear Minister Azziman, I am a British student and I am concerned by the reports that Ali-Salem Tamek who has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a fine on 10 September for "undermining the internal security of the state".
		His sentence was confirmed on appeal on 24 October.Part of Ali-Salem Tamek's conviction was based on a statement, made by three former Sahrawi prisoners of conscience during questioning by Moroccan security forces in 1999.
		Their allegations have never been investigated I am writing to call for the immediate and unconditional release of prisoner of conscience Ali-Salem Tamek and for the allegations of torture to be investigated.
	tirian.magd.ox.ac.uk /~chloe/amnesty/archive/Morocco.doc (245 words)

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