Mustafa Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud's father, Ismaili Moulay Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud, said, on Saturday in Washington, that he "fears the worst" for his son's health, underlining that he still has no news about him, despite the polisario's announcement of his release.
Ismaili Moulay Salma told MAP that he does not know "whether Mustafa is dead or alive", underscoring that "the polisario does not want to show my son because he was subjected to physical torture that would stir up the international public opinion".
In this regard, he said, citing reliable sources, that many demonstrations were staged in Tindouf to support his son.
"Many demonstrations were staged before the so-called polisario's administration", Ismaili Moulay Salma said, adding that "flags of the so-called SADR were burnt during the demonstrations".
Pastors of three churches from New York, Virginia and Maryland prayed, on Sunday, before thousands of believers "for the salvation of Mustafa Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud and his family and for an end to brutality, corruption and injustice in Algeria".
It is necessary that US policy makers, legislators and public opinion hear the truth about the suffering of Mustafa Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud, who was abducted for speaking out his mind, President of Leadership Council for Human Rights, Kathryn Porter Cameron, said on Saturday.
"The polisario and the Algerian government claim they have released him", said Cameron, underlining that the separatists and their mentor Algeria spread "so much untruth" and that they are lying to the state department, the congress, the US government and NGOs.
If Ould Sidi Mouloud was really freed "why wasn't he released into the care on an internationally recognized NGO or someone who guarantee his safety", she wondered.
Cameron said she is "fundamentally offended and angry" over the ordeal endured by a man "who has been violated for speaking his mind" and who was "put in jail for trying to speak out for his people", after voicing support for Morocco's autonomy initiative as a final settlement to the Sahara conflict.
Source: MAP
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