(AI Translated) Bashir Khadda, born in 1986, is a Sahrawi human‑rights defender and independent journalist in Western Sahara. He is a member of the Sahrawi Observatory for Human Rights in Western Sahara, and his media activity is linked to the “Equip Media” agency, known for covering human‑rights and social conditions in the occupied part of Western Sahara.

In 2017, the Court of Appeal in Salé, Morocco, issued a judgment sentencing him to twenty years’ imprisonment. During the trial, the Sahrawi political prisoner Bashir Khadda gave testimony confirming that he was abducted on 4 December 2010 from a café in Laayoune, together with human‑rights defenders Mohamed al‑Tahliil and Hassan Idah.

He explained that after his arrest he was subjected to torture and mistreatment during his detention, noting that he lost consciousness due to the severity of the torture. He also reported that he remained blindfolded and hand‑cuffed throughout his detention, and that the confessions and statements attributed to him were signed under torture and coercion.

The Sahrawi human‑rights defender also affirmed that he was not present at the Akrim Ezik camp on the morning of 8 November 2010, the date when the camp was dismantled and the subsequent events occurred, despite being accused of acts related to those events.

Human‑rights defender and Sahrawi journalist Bashir Khadda undertook several hunger strikes during his imprisonment to protest the conditions of his detention. His first strike took place in 2011 at Zakri Prison 01 in Salé, and on 5 November 2017 he began a hunger strike that lasted 33 days before being suspended in December 2017.

On 18 September 2018 he launched an open hunger strike inside Tiflet 2 prison, demanding adequate medical care, an end to his suffering caused by separation from his family, and transfer to a prison facility closer to Western Sahara. This strike continued for more than five weeks.