Rkia Ahabou: I did not have means to cure my son who died because of torture
Morocco, Politics, 2/4/2005

Rkia Ahabou, spouse of former detainee Said Boudrik, affirmed, here Wednesday that her son perished because she did not have the means to cure him from the wounds he was inflicted under torture.

Giving her testimony at the 4th session of hearings into human rights violations committed from 1956 to 1999, Rkia recalled how she and her family were harassed after the arrest of her husband, with 25 other people, in March 1973.

Rkia noted that as a consequence, her children stopped going to school, which ruined their future.

"I used to walk a long distance in the hope of giving food to my husband," she said, deploring that eventually the guards refused to take it to him.

"Each time I heard the sound of a helicopter near my house, I feared I would be asked again about the activities of my husband and his friends," she went on.

Rkia noted that the search conducted by police under the pretext of looking for weapons always ended up by the destruction of the furniture and other objects in the house.

At the end, Rkia said she still have many things to say, but she will just contend to hope that this phase will open a new page in her life.

Previous Stories:
  Next human rights public hearings to take place in Errachidia   (2/2/2005)
  Former detainee wife tells of the suffering of her family after her husband's arrest   (2/1/2005)
  Former detainee Boudrara: when an individual is tortured it is all the society that is harmed in its dignity and freedom   (2/1/2005)

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