Former detainee wife tells of the suffering of her family after her husband's arrest
Morocco, Politics, 2/1/2005

Fatima Saad Eddine, wife of a former detainee, told in Figuig on Saturday of her sufferings and the hardships of her family after her husband was arrested in the morrow of the 1973 events.

Fatima Saad Eddine told the public hearing held here by the justice and reconciliation commission, in charge of past human rights violations, that because of the harassment by soldiers and the siege of her relatives houses after her husband went to work, one day, and did not go back home, the baby she was pregnant of was still-born.

In her testimony, she pointed out that soldiers would break in her house without being allowed at all hours of the day or the night for two months, while continuously being cross-examined. She said she was not familiar with police stations and courts.

She said her husband was detained in the Kenitra prison where she went to visit, adding her children could not recognise their father because he changed so much.

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