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Preventing families of Moroccan detainees and human rights activists from
attending court sittings and subjecting them to physical and verbale assault
at the hands of the Moroccan militias;
Dependence on court statements devoid of credible evidence;
Lack of respect for the legal guidelines on treatment under custody
(informing families of the legal time frames, allowing detainees to contact
their lawyers, ensuring their physical safety etc.);
Violation of the judicial rules in calling witnesses and those dealing with the
files of the human rights activists (Ali Salem Tanek, Dakja Laskr, Ibrahim
Dehen, Ahmed Naseri, Saleh Labihi, Bahziah Taruzi, Rashid Sagher) for
reinvestigation by the President of the Judicial Body concerned with the file
at the Court of the First Instance in Casablanca, Morocco. The deadline set
for the judgement concerning this file was 15 days;
Leaking contents of statements of some Sahrawi political prisoners to some
Moroccan media houses, which may compromise the confidentiality of the
investigations and due process;
Detention and investigation of detainees in unofficial locations (secret
offices of the Department of Preservation of National Territorial Integrity and
other places);
Lack of response to the requests of the political detainees and their defence
in carrying out investigations into complaints of torture before the official
from the office of the Prosecutor General and the Investigation Judge;
Lack of opening investigations into complaints of detainees and their
families about torture and abuse during the period they are under custody
or in prison;
Lack of enabling some of those whose cases are before the Court of First
Instance to designate lawyers to defend them;
Lack of visit by the investigating Judge to detainees in prison during their
detention;