Urgent Appeal as Sahrawi Activist Naâma Asfari’s Health Deteriorates
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Urgent Appeal as Sahrawi Activist Naâma Asfari’s Health Deteriorates
Imprisoned Sahrawi activist Naama Asfari is entering his second month of an indefinite hunger strike, protesting severe prison conditions and demanding his transfer to a detention center in occupied Western Sahara. The 56-year-old political prisoner, Sahrawi activist Naâma (Enaama) Asfari, was imprisoned since 2010 and he is serving a 30-year sentence in northern Morocco. He initiated his protest last June 8, protesting harsh detention condition…
Asfari, 56 years old and sentenced to three decades in prison, began a hunger strike on 8 June to denounce the precarious conditions of his detention and demand his transfer to occupied Western Sahara.
Geneva, Switzerland, 16 July 2026 – The International Service for Human Rights (IHR) expressed its deep concern at the continuing deterioration of the health status of Sahrawi human rights defender Naâma Asfari, who has been on an indefinite hunger strike since 8 June 2026 at Kenitra prison in Morocco, and urged the Moroccan authorities to take urgent measures to protect his life and to implement the recommendations and decisions of the United N…
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