Day 11
Western Sahara
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International announced that nineteen Sahrawi activists languish in prison years after Moroccan courts convicted them in unfair proceedings. These nineteen men have now spent twelve years in prison, with years still to serve, after trials that leaned heavily on tainted confessions. The United Nations expert body on torture condemned the violations. Pray for the Sahrawi human rights defenders arrested and detained by Moroccan security forces who were repeatedly beaten and abused. The trials were marred by a heavy reliance on confessions that the defendants repudiated as extracted through torture. Pray for justice to prevail and for the release of the activists. Pray for liberation through the Holy Spirit to be restored for the oppressed (The Bible, Matthew 12:18).
(Source:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/11/08/western-sahara-long-term-prisoners-await-justice
President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is Incumbent Brahim Ghali since 12 July 2016. Western Sahara is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly consisting of desert flatlands. It has been a disputed territory since 1975. Morocco controls 80% of the land, while the remaining 20% is controlled by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Presently, camps run by the Cuban-backed Polisario Front exist in southern Algeria, where thousands of indigenous Sahrawi people are sequestered and treated inhumanely. Public beatings are common and young children are taken from their families and sent to Cuba for re-education. It is a country in tremendous need of the Gospel. It is estimated that there are only about 10 Christian workers in the whole country, making it so about 80% of its population has never heard the Gospel. It is a closed country, so being a “missionary” there is not officially allowed. Christian workers must be creative in why they go and how they minister there. Its Christian prospect is considered bleak, and the nation of Western Sahara remains a disputed territory.
