"CCDH urges all sister national institutions, including the National Consultative Human Rights Commission of Algeria, all international agencies and all national and international human rights associations to do their best so that Mr. Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud can return to Tindouf safely and defend his opinions freely," The CCDH said in a statement.

The CCDH, which received a letter from Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud in which he expressed fear of "possible retaliation by the leadership of the Polisario Front," underlined that "given the deplorable state of human rights in the Tindouf camps, or even the illegal character of these camps under the international humanitarian law, the fear of retaliation expressed by Mr. Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud is to be taken seriously."

Following a four-month visit to his family in Smara (southern Morocco), Mustapha Ould Salma Sidi Mouloud, who is currently the Chief Inspector of the polisario's police, expressed, in a press conference on August 9 in Smara, his intention to support the autonomy plan among the population held against their will in Tindouf camps.

Source: MAP
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