Passport for Freedom extended to longest-serving Moroccan POW in algeria
"The passport for freedom" will be extended Tuesday in the European parliament to Moroccan officer, Mimouni Zeggai, detained since 1976 in the Tindouf camps (south-eastern Algeria, where the Polisario separatists are based), announced Dominique Rambaud, coordinator of the European Union's "Passport for Freedom" initiative.
The "passport for freedom" will be handed to the daughter of the Moroccan officer at a press conference to call for an urgent action by the European Union for the immediate release of 1160 Moroccan soldiers, held captives for over 25 years in Algeria, said Rambaud in a release.
The Geneva Convention orders the liberation of POWs and their immediate repatriation after the end of hostilities.
The Passport for Freedom will be extended to Zeggai as the longest-serving Moroccan detainee in the Tindouf camps.
Instituted by French Euro-deputy Alain Madelin, the "Passport for Freedom" is a means to help members of the European parliament voice their solidarity with people fighting for the respect of human rights.
