Algerian military officials, polisario mercenaries sued in Belgium

A group of thirty former Moroccan detainees in Algeria have lodged a complaint with the Belgian justice against Algerian military officials and mercenaries of the separatists group Polisario.

The former detainees hold the Algerian militaries and the Polisario mercenaries accountable for their captivity for more than twenty years in southern Algeria.

Polisario chief, Mohamed Abdelaziz, and Polisario representative in Spain, Brahim Ghali, are among those sued by the former detainees.

The thirty Moroccan civilians, belonging to the Moroccan Sahara Association, all spent more than twenty years in Polisario jails in southern Algeria.

They included in their complaint details of their kidnapping and their sequestration in inhumane conditions.

The complaint was lodged with the office of the Public Prosecutor in Brussels in accordance with the Universal Competence Law, allowing Belgian courts to try those responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide regardless of their nationality and the places where the crimes were committed.