A l’attention de Monsieur le Directeur Général

Note

Objet : compte rendu de la mission à Washington du père de Mustapha Salma

J’ai l’honneur de soumettre très respectueusement à l’attention de Monsieur le

Directeur Général le compte rendu de la visite à Washington de Monsieur Ismaili

Moulay Salma, père de Mustapha Salma sidi mouloud, du 07 au 13 octobre 2010.

En application des Instructions de Monsieur le Directeur Général, un

déplacement a été effectué à New York , le 07 octobre 2010, pour récupérer

Monsieur Moulay Salma, qui se trouvait à New York dans le cadre des travaux de la

quatrième commission qui ont eu lieu aux Nations Unis du 04 au 06 octobre 2010, et

l’amener à Washington pour des rencontres avec les responsables américains au

Congrès, au Département d’Etat ainsi qu’avec les acteurs associatifs des ONG des

droits de l’Homme et les médias.

L’objectif de la visite :

La visite de Monsieur Ismaili Moulay Salma entre dans le cadre des actions

visant à exercer plus de pressions sur l’Algérie et le Polisario pour obtenir la libération

immédiate de Monsieur Mustapha Ould Salma et assurer ses droits, en tant que

réfugié, à la libre expression et à la libre circulation. Le choix de l’ONG américaine

Leadership Council for Human Rights avait pour but d’utiliser les mêmes armes dont

nos adversaires font recours , à savoir les ONG des droits de l’Homme. Le Leadership

Council for Human Rights pourrait être l’équivalent de ce que RFK (Robert Kennedy

Foundation) a fait pour la séparatiste Aminatou Haidar.

Le sponsor de la visite :

Afin de garantir un aspect humanitaire à la mission, l’ONG américaine

Leadership Council for Human Rights a été invitée à sponsoriser la visite du père

Salma et son fils Mohamed Cheikh. Notre Ambassade à Washington ainsi que notre

cabinet de lobbysme ont été informés de la visite mais sollicités de rester à l’écart

pour sauvegarder la crédibilité de l’ONG en question et assurer l’impact de la mission.

Il convient de rappeler que l‘ONG Leadership Council for Human Rights a été derrière

la mobilisation des organisation américaines des droits de l’Homme, des médias ainsi

que des membres des congrès, qu’a connu Washington à la suite de l’arrestation de

Monsieur Ould Salma, appelant à la libération immédiate et son condition de

Mustapha Ould Salma. La présidente de cette ONG, Madame Kathryn Porter, est une

activiste des droits de l’Homme qui a été parmi les fondateurs de la Commission Tom

Landos des Droits de l’Homme au sein du Congrès, très respectée pour sa lutte pour

les droits de l’Homme. Madame Porter avait visité le Maroc, en MAI 2010, en

compagnie de Monsieur Joe Griebosky et avait promis défendre la justesse de la cause

marocaine et surtout de démasquer la vérité des adversaires.

Le programme de la visite :

Monsieur Ismaili Salma a fait le déplacement à Washington, après celui du

New York, pour plaider pour la libération de son fils. Le programme organisé pour sa

visite par l’ONG Leadership Council for Human Rights comprenait des rencontres avec

les responsables américains du Département d’Etat, le Congrès, ainsi que des ONG et

des Think Tanks évoluant dans la défense de la liberté et les droits de l’homme. Copie

du programme est ci-joint en annexe.

Le Malaise du père Salma :

Monsieur Salma, qui n’a jamais eu des entretiens avec des responsables

américains semblait fatigué par le nombre des rencontres organisées pour lui. Le jour

de la rencontre avec le Directeur du Bureau du Congresman Howard Berman,

Monsieur Salma, « sans préavis » n’a pas pu continuer et s’est évanoui dans le bureau

dudit Congresman. Monsieur Berman a été immédiatement informé, et a instruit son

staff d’appeler le médecin de permanence du Congrès. Ce dernier s’est

immédiatement arrivé au bureau de Monsieur Berman et a commencé à le soigner de

son malaise. Les autres infirmiers du corps médical du Congrès, ont eux aussi, fait ce

qu’il fallait avant de décider que, vu son passé cardiaque, il fallait le transporter en

urgence à l’hôpital. Le bureau du Congressman Berman a ainsi appelé le numéro

d’urgence (911), qui ont dépêché une ambulance pour l’évacuation de Monsieur

Salma, qui a été admis, quinze minutes après, à l’Hôpital Geroges W. Washington.

Une équipe de télévision, qui a été avisée préalablement pour filmer la

rencontre avec le Congressman, a été invitée par la police du Congrès de quitter les

lieux. L’équipe a été sollicitée pour suivre l’ambulance jusqu’à l’hôpital pour l’envoi

immédiat des images de Monsieur Salma à l’Hôpital Georges Washington à la chaine

nationale. Le représentant de la MAP, qui a été invité pour couvrir, a pour sa part

informé, par dépêche, sa Centrale.

Monsieur Salma, a été sollicité de rester à l’hôpital pour 24 heures et ce afin

de s’assurer que sa santé est hors danger.

D’autres images et déclarations ont été envoyées à la RTM pour exploitation,

au cours de la soirée et le lendemain, quand Monsieur Salma a quitté l’hôpital pour

rentrer à Rabat.

A Rabat, la RTM et la MAP ont été informées de l’arrivée de Monsieur Salma

pour couverture. Un médecin a été à l’aéroport pour un control de santé, avant que

Monsieur Salma soit transporté par l’ambulance du l’aéroport à l’hôtel Tour Hassan.

Exploitation du malaise du père Salma

Le « malaise » du père Salma a été, par la suite, exploité pour faire plus de

pression sur l’Algérie et le Polisario. Dès l’annonce de son malaise, l’ONG Leadership

Council for Human Rights a été invitée à contacter les ONG, Amnesty International,

Human Rights Watch, RFK, le Congrès, le Département d’Etat pour les informer du

malaise du père de Salma, qui s’est évanoui, au sein du congrès, en plaidant pour la

liberté de son fils, détenu par le Polisario sur le sol algérien pour avoir fait des

déclarations en faveur de l’autonomie.

Médiatisation de la visite :

Monsieur Griebosky a été informé de l’importance de la médiatisation de la

visite de Monsieur Salma à Washington. Dès l’arrivée de ce dernier, des

communiqués ont été rendus publiques par le biais du NEWS WIRE. Durant son

séjour, le Scranton Time Tribune a publié un éditorial très important appelant le

Département d’Etat à faire preuve d’engagement pour savoir le sort de Mustapha, et

ce conformément aux valeurs américaines.

D’autres articles, sous forme de lettres ou de communiqués, ont été publiés

sur le net par le Daily Caller, Morocco Board, El Muhajer, le Christian News Wire ainsi

que des milliers de commentaires sur le Face book et le site crée et dédié à cette

question, « Freemyson.org». Selon Monsieur Charai, les chaines de Télévision Fox

News et CNN ont également évoqué la visite de Monsieur Salma. Copies des articles,

lettres et communiqués sont ci-joints en annexe.

La conférence, qui était prévue pour Monsieur Salma avant son malaise devait

réunir plusieurs journalistes comme Al Ajazeera, Al Arabiya, Fox News et autres.

Très respectueusement

Program for Salma Ismaili Sidi Mouloud

Monday, October 11, 2010

10:00 Jason Isaacson

AJC

11:30 Richard Miniter

Freelance Journalist

12 :30 Gregory Houël

Program Officer, Middle East and North Africa

National Endowment for Democracy

13:00 Alison Lake

Washington Post

18 :00 Samantha Ravith

Ex-Deputy Adviser for NSC de Chenney

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

9:00 am Haim Malka

Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program

Center for Security and International Studies

1800 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006

202-775-3133

11:30 am Office of Representative Howard Berman

2:30 pm TV interview

2020 M Street

4:00 pm Moises Naim

Senior Associate, International Economics Program

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC

202-483-7600

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

11:30 am Elizabeth Hoffman

Republican Staff Director

Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

340 Ford House Office Building

202-225-3599

1:30 pm Allyson Bird

Advisor, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Security Affairs

Office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

361A Russell Senate Office Building

202-224-2541

3:00 pm Mary Lange

Office Director for North Africa

Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration

2025 E. Street, NW

202-453-9369

4:30 pm Samantha Power

Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights

National Security Council

Thursday, October 14, 2010

10:00 am PRESS CONFERENCE

Methodist Building

110 Maryland Avenue, NE

Couverture médiatique

(sans la MAP)

Senator Urges U.S. Inquiry Into 'Very Troubling Incident' of Sahrawi Leader Jailed by Polisario for Speaking Out to End Sahara Conflict www.moroccanamericanpolicy.org.

Outspoken police chief reportedly to be freed, but may not be free to return to Tindouf

refugee camps in Algeria to see his family or speak for peace with other Sahrawis

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY)

wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, joining other Congress members and international

human rights advocates expressing concern for the safety of Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi

Mouloud, the outspoken Sahrawi leader whose whereabouts are still unknown. The Polisario

Front said Wednesday it would release him following his Sept. 21 arrest and imprisonment in

Algeria. Senator Bunning asked Sec. Clinton to inquire into this "very troubling incident" of

the Polisario's jailing of its own Chief Police Inspector. Mustapha Salma was charged with

"treason" and "espionage" as he was on his way to rejoin his family in the Tindouf refugee

camps in Algeria and speak out in favor of Morocco's compromise autonomy plan to end the

decades-long Western Sahara conflict.

"I am writing to express my concern for the safety and well-being of Mustapha Salma Ould

Sidi Mouloud," Sen. Bunning wrote Clinton. He said while the Polisario statement on "the

release of Mr. Sidi Mouloud is good news, it is a very troubling incident. Your assistance in

obtaining information on his continued safety, and that of his family, would be greatly

appreciated." He also asked Sec. Clinton for "any other information on how and why this

detention occurred."

Bunning noted Mustapha Salma was on a trip in southern Morocco sponsored by the UN

High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). After seeing the progress in Morocco's Sahara

provinces, which he was visiting for the first time in 31 years, Mustapha Salma vowed to

return to the refugee camps and voice his support for Morocco's autonomy plan to end the 35-

year Western Sahara dispute. Bunning pointed out that prominent international human rights

groups—including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Leadership Council for

Human Rights, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) were critical of the

arrest. Other U.S. Senate and House of Representatives members have also spoken out.

Earlier this week, Mustapha Salma's father and brother made personal appeals in New York

City to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and international human rights

groups to ensure the Mustapha Salma was freed from prison to be with his family and free to

speak his mind to refugees still in the camps in Algeria. The father and brother live in Smara,

southern Morocco, where Mustapha Salma was kidnapped as a young boy by Polisario raiders

who killed four family members.

Scranton Time Tribune :

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1- Speak for captives

Editor: Thank you for your incredibly important editorial on the unjust and

inhumane case of Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud (U.S. must press free

speech, Oct.9).

Sidi Mouloud was illegally and unjustly detained by Algerian authorities on

Sept. 21 for exercising his right of free speech, calling for the freedom of his

people from the hands of the Algerians.

The former head of the Polisario Front's police forces, Sidi Mouloud spoke out

in favor of the Moroccan Autonomy Plan as a final resolution of the 35-year

Western Sahara conflict and was thrown into an Algerian prison for doing so.

The Leadership Council on Human Rights has brought Salma Ismaili Ould Sidi

Mouloud, the father of Mustpaha Salma Oulda Sidi Mouloud, to Washington

this week to tell the story of their family tragedy.

Sidi Mouloud's father had not seen him in 35 years - since the Polisario abducted

him and his mother and brothers and forcibly moved them to the camps in

Algeria. His father finally saw his son several weeks ago, only to have him

stolen away again by the Algerians and Polisario for speaking out against the

inhumane treatment and imprisonment of the people in the camps in Algeria.

During the visit to Washington, Salma Ismaili Ould Sidi Mouloud will share his

family's tragic story with State Department officials, congressional staff, human

rights leaders, religious leaders and the media.

The Leadership Council for Human Rights is grateful for your call on the State

Department to speak for free speech. Thousands are held captive in camps in

Algeria and cannot speak for themselves.

The Algerian government must permit the people to leave the camps, and the

U.S. government must speak out for their rights.

KATHRYN CAMERON PORTER, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT,

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, ALEXANDRIA, VA.

2.US. must press free speech

Published: October 9, 2010

This raucous election season illustrates just how much Americans value rights to dissent and

free speech, yet they are values that we do not always press vigorously abroad.

A case in point is unfolding in Northwest Africa, against the backdrop of one of the world's

longest-running but least known territorial disputes.

For about 35 years Algeria and Morocco have been locked in a stalemate over disposition of

Western Sahara, a vast tract occupied mostly, as its name implies, by the western reaches of

the Sahara Desert.

A separatist organization backed by Algeria, the Polisario Front, is based at Tindouf, a desert

refugee camp in Algeria.

On Sept. 21, Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud, a security officer for the Polisario Front,

publicly declared his support for an autonomy plan favored by Morocco to resolve the

dispute, after visiting several sites in the Western Sahara under the auspices of the office of

the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

He subsequently was detained in Algeria while en route back to Tindouf. Although his release

was announced last week, he has not been heard from since.

There are differences of opinion within the U.S. government and among individual members

of Congress about the long-term resolution of the Western Sahara issue, but there is no

disagreement that people there should have freedom of movement and freedom of speech.

Several U.S. senators and congressmen have asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to

protest Mr. Sidi Mouloud's detention and to press Algerian authorities to disclose his location

and return him to his family.

Mrs. Clinton should do so in this case, and whenever fundamental American values - which

also are specific to a number of international human rights declarations endorsed by the

United States - so blithely are violated.

COMMUNIQUE du LEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Leadership Council to Host Family of Freedom Advocate Detained by Algeria

Alexandria, VA – The Leadership Council on Human Rights this week hosts Salma Ismaili Ould Sidi Mouloud , the father of Mustpaha Salma Oulda Sidi Mouloud.

Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud was illegally and unjustly detained by Algerian authorities on September 21 for exercising his right of free speech. The former head of the Polisario Front’s police forces, Sidi Mouloud spoke out in favor of the Moroccan Autonomy Plan as a final resolution of the 35-year Western Sahara conflict and was thrown into an Algerian prison for doing so. Prior to his detention, Sidi Mouloud was barred access to his family, including his newborn daughter, whom he still hasn’t seen.

“It is fundamentally important that American policymakers, media, and the general public hear the tragic story of Sidi Mouloud and his family,” commented Kathryn Cameron Porter, Founder and President of the Leadership Council. “Sidi Mouloud’s father had not seen him in 35 years – since the Polisario abducted him and forcibly moved him to the camps in Algeria. His father finally saw his son during a UNHCR-sponsored family visit several weeks ago, only to have him stolen away again by the Algerians and Polisario for speaking out against the inhumane treatment and imprisonment of the people in the camps in Algeria.”

During the visit to Washington, Salma Ismaili Ould Sidi Mouloud will share his family’s tragic story with State Department officials,

congressional staff, human rights leaders, religious leaders, and members of the media.

“The Polisario told the State Department and the world that they released my son to his mother, and that was not true. I only want to know where my son is and that he is safe,” stated Salma Ismaili. “My son is a good and brave man who cares for his people and wants to see them free. But I want to see him free as well. My time in Washington will be spent trying to find out where my boy is.”

For more information about Salma Ismaili Ould Sidi Mouloud’s visit to Washington, or to schedule a meeting or interview, please call Leigh Anne Arnold at 703-499-2060 or email her at leadershipcouncil4humanrights@gmail.com.

ELMUHAJERTV (02 articles)

1/Evangelicals Raise Their Voices to Heaven for the Freedom of Sidi

Mouloud

Washington, DC – Over 10,000 voices rose in prayer Sunday for Mustafa Salma

Ould Sidi Mouloud and his family, and for an end to the brutality, corruption

and injustice in Algeria.

Sidi Mouloud was illegally and unjustly detained by Algerian authorities on

September 21 for exercising his right of free speech, calling for the freedom of

his people form the camps in Algeria.

“Christians are called in Scripture to pray for those who suffer and to advance

justice and mercy, so we could not stand idly by as an innocent man is punished

for exercising his God-given rights,” stated Reverend Rob Schenck, President of

the National Clergy Council and Chairman of the Committee on Church and

Society for the Evangelical Church Alliance International and the organizer of

the national prayer alert for Sidi Mouloud.

The former head of the Polisario Front’s police forces, Sidi Mouloud spoke out

in favor of the Moroccan Autonomy Plan as a final resolution of the 35-year

Western Sahara conflict and was thrown into an Algerian prison for doing so.

Prior to his detention, Sidi Mouloud was barred access to his family, including

his newborn daughter, whom he still hasn’t seen.

The Algerians and Polisario announced on October 6 that they intended to

release Sidi Mouloud, but no one had seen or heard from him. Then on October

7 they stated that they had released him, but again no one had seen or heard

from him. On October 8, the Polisario representative in Washington told the US

State Department that Sidi Mouloud was in Mheriz with his mother, but when

she was contacted, she said that he was not with her and she had not heard from

him. On October 10, Sidi Moulud’s mother stated that she still has not seen or

heard from her son, despite the Poilsario’s claims.

“As one voice, thousands of Christians cried out to Heaven for Sidi Mouloud

and his family. We prayed and continue to pray that God will grant Algerian

leaders humble hearts so that they will see the error of their ways, free Sidi

Mouloud, and allow him to return safely to his wife and children,” continued

Reverend Schenck. “I pray there is some humanity left in anyone in Algeria to

make the right decision here."

2/Vigil at Algerian Embassy for Safety of Sidi Mouloud

Moroccoboard (01 article):

Protest at Algerian Embassy: Where is Western Sahara Dissident Sidi Mouloud?

http://www.moroccoboard.com/news/111/4852

Petitions face book

1/http://www.causes.com/causes/529216 2/http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/free-mustapha-salma-ould-sidi-mouloud-now/