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Pregnant Woman Raped and Lost Baby after Being Deported into the Desert

IMCistas | 03.01.2007 17:59 | Migration | Repression | World

Reports of terrible tragedies suffered by the 240 refugees who were arrested and deported by the Moroccan authorities on December 23, 2006, began to reach us.

According to reports from Attac, a 5-month-pregnant Congolese woman was viciously raped on January 2nd. She was hospitalized but lost her baby in hospital. Since her rape, she is said to have been in a state of shock and refuses to speak.

According to Afrik.com, quoting Paulin Kuamzambi, the vice-president of Morocco Refugees Collective, four women were raped on the way back to Oujda (Morocco). There hasn't been any more information about the circumstances surrounding these rapes except that, in 3 cases, the rapers were Moroccans, while it was Algerians in the fourth.


To send your protests:

Driss Jettou, Prime Minister
Fax : +212 37 76 86 56

Chakib Benmoussa, Minister of the Interior
Fax : +212 37 76 20 56

Here's also a list of Moroccan embassies worldwide:
http://www.maec.gov.ma/EN/missionsEN.asp?code=1
http://morocco.embassyhomepage.com/

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