(AI Translated) Hassan al-Dah, born in 1987, a Sahrawi defender of human rights and journalist with the channel “Rasd TV,” also affiliated with the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Gross Human Rights Violations committed by the Moroccan state. He was previously subjected to political imprisonment in 2010, serving ten months in pre‑trial detention because of his political views. He participated in the Akeedim Ezik camp as a correspondent for the official channel of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, “Rasd TV.” On 4 December 2010, he was arrested together with Mohamed al‑Tahliil and al‑Bashir al‑Khadra, before the Court of Appeal in Sla issued a judgment in 2017 sentencing him to 25 years’ imprisonment as part of the so‑called Akeedim Ezik group case.

During the trial sessions, the Sahrawi political prisoner Hassan al‑Dah affirmed that he was tortured while detained in the occupied city of Laayoune and at the police headquarters, noting that the statements attributed to him were signed under duress and torture, and that the Moroccan occupying forces later filled in the gaps in those statements.

Conversely, he denied being present in the Akeedim Ezik camp on 8 November 2010, explaining that he had left the camp the day before, and that on 7 November 2010 he witnessed Moroccan military and quasi‑military forces imposing a siege on the camp, preventing people from entering or leaving it.

Since his arrest in 2010, the Sahrawi political prisoner Hassan al‑Dah has undertaken several hunger strikes to protest the conditions of his detention and what he considers violations of his fundamental rights inside Moroccan prisons. Notably, he began an open hunger strike in October 2018 at Kénitra prison to protest his solitary confinement and denial of his university studies; he launched another open hunger strike in April 2022 together with Sahrawi political prisoner Al‑Hussein al‑Zawi demanding transfer to prisons closer to Western Sahara and respect for their basic rights. He entered a new open hunger strike in October 2023 to protest what he described as discriminatory and racist treatment and deprivation of the necessary means to continue his education. During 2025 and 2026, Hassan al‑Dah continued to resort to warning hunger strikes to denounce mistreatment, medical neglect, and restrictions on his rights within the penitentiary institution.