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Mr. Guterres highlighted in his report that the mandate holders underneath the particular procedures of the Human Rights Council transmitted a communication concerning the extrajudicial executions of two Sahrawis within the Tindouf camps by the Algerian safety forces in a mining website close to the “Dakhla camp” in Tindouf, Algeria, in October 2020.
On this regard, the Secretary Normal of the United Nations famous the communication from UN specialists on this incident, specifically, from the Particular Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, the Particular Rapporteur on extrajudicial, abstract or executions arbitrary acts and the Particular Rapporteur on torture and different merciless, inhuman or degrading remedy or punishment.
The three UN Rapporteurs all expressed their severe issues concerning the extrajudicial executions of two Sahrawis within the Tindouf camps by Algerian safety forces in a mining website south of the city of Auinet Balakraa in Tindouf.
They specified that the Algerian navy patrol set hearth to the mining ditch, the place the 2 individuals had been, and left the place with out worrying about their destiny. No investigation was opened into the circumstances of the deaths of those two individuals and the culprits weren’t prosecuted.
The UN specialists had been eager to affirm, of their communication, that these violations are a part of a extra common pattern of systematic violations dedicated by the Algerian safety forces towards the populations sequestered within the Tindouf camps and migrant minors, deploring, specifically, the repression and discriminatory practices towards these populations, which elevated in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic within the Tindouf camps.
These human rights specialists added that the households of the victims don’t dare to report these violations to the Algerian authorities for worry of reprisals, leaving the populations of the Tindouf camps in peril of abuse by the Algerian safety forces and with out risk of taking authorized motion and stopping such violations from occurring once more.
This data from mandate holders underneath the particular procedures of the Human Rights Council, talked about within the Secretary-Normal’s report on the Moroccan Sahara, provides to the black register of significant and systematic violations of human rights within the sequestration camps in Tindouf, Algeria.
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