LOGROO, 8 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Saharawi activist Sultana Khaya receives this Friday, at 12:00 p.m., in the hall of columns of the Beneficencia, the Human Rights Award of La Rioja 2021, in the modality of personal trajectory.
Prior to the award ceremony, at 11 am, there will be a rally in front of the building against the violation of Human Rights in the Occupied Sharia.
In addition, the Aula Magna of the Popular University of Logroo will host, at 7:30 p.m., a talk on the violation of human rights in the Sharia Occupied by Morocco, to later, at 9:00 p.m., share a tribute dinner at the ‘Modern’ bar in Logroo.
Sultana Khaya was born in the city of Boujdour, Western Sahara, the Spanish colony that was occupied by Morocco in 1976, and which is still considered a Non-Self-Governing Territory by the United Nations.
Since her early youth, Sultana Khaya has stood out for her active militancy against the occupation and in defense of human rights.
In 2005, within the framework of the Saharawi intifada, Sultana was a victim of enforced disappearance after being detained by the police, subjected to interrogations and tortured, and was subsequently exiled. A year later she began to study French at a university in Marrakech.
His case became known in 2007, when he was part of the Saharawi student body that took to the streets to demonstrate against the repression suffered by his colleagues and families in the occupied territories. There he suffered a harsh attack by the police
in which he ended up losing an eye. Since those days she has continued to be the victim of numerous arrests and assaults by the Moroccan security forces.
Sultana Khaya is a member of ISACOM (Sahrawi Instance Against the Moroccan Occupation), established on September 21, 2020, in the city of El Aain, capital of Western Sahara.
Likewise, she is the founder and president of the ‘Sahrawi League for the Defense of Human Rights and Against the Looting of Natural Resources’, from where she has been denouncing the exploitation of Western Sharah resources by Morocco, one of the keys to understand why the question of Western Sahara remains unresolved.
For La Rioja, specifically, Sultana Sid Brahim Khaya has been an encouragement to continue defending the Saharawi people and their rights by all means.
The Association of Friends of SADR, and with it the entire solidarity movement with the Sahara, have participated in all the campaigns that CEAS (Spanish Coordinator of Associations of Solidarity with the Sahara) have launched in support of Sultana and the Human Rights in Western Sahara, so the figure of Sultana has had great repercussions in our Autonomous Community.
