Mohammed Daddach

Mohammed Daddach (Arabic سيدي محمد دداش, born 1957 in guelta Zemmur ) is a political activist and former political prisoner of the Sahrawis in Morocco. He fought in the Western Sahara conflict for the independence of Western Sahara from Morocco.

Daddach was arrested as Polisario fighters in 1975 for the first time, sat 24 years in several prisons and became the symbol of the Saharawi liberation movement. Daddach publicly criticized the human rights violations of the Moroccan government. In 1979 he was arrested again and sentenced to death. 1994, this sentence was commuted to a life sentence. Amnesty International sought to his release from prison. On November 7, 2001, he was released under a general amnesty. He was nominated for the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize in 2002 and got him in Norway, where he first met his mother again since 1975. His mother lived in a refugee camp in Norway.