Spanish Court Summons Polisario Leader Brahim Ghali for May 5 Hearing

According to sources close to the case, the Spanish jurisdiction has summoned the head of the separatists admitted to the San Pedro de Logroño hospital, reports EFE. Judge Santiago Pedraz Gomez has issued a summons for his hearing on May 5, as well as that of other influential members of the separatist movement following a complaint filed by El Fadel Breika, one of their dissidents for "kidnapping, arbitrary detention and torture" in the Tindouf prisons.

During the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) held in Geneva in 2020, this blogger and human rights activist had denounced "the repression and serious abuses committed by the Polisario torturers against the inhabitants of Tindouf under the passive gaze of the host country’s authorities, Algeria", and condemned "the silence of the so-called defenders of the Sahrawi people on the mistreatment and violations committed against the Sahrawis by the Polisario leaders, with the complicity of the Algerian security services to silence, by fire and blood, any dissonant voice to the said camps".

Since the hospitalization of the Polisario boss in a Logroño hospital, not far from Zaragoza, under the borrowed name of Mohamed Ben Battouche, of Algerian nationality, the Spanish victims of the terrorist acts perpetrated by the separatist movement are demanding his arrest. Some of them even demonstrated under the windows of his hospital on May 1.