On 28 December 2010, human rights defender Mr Yahya Mohamed el Hafed Aaza was transferred from his cell in Ayat-Melol prison in Agadir to the city hospital, following a serious deterioration in his health.
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Yahya Mohamed el Hafed Aaza, aged 44 and father of three children,is a member of the Tan-Tan Branch of the Association Marocaine des Droits de l'Homme -- AMDH (Moroccan Association of Human Rights), and a member of the constitutive assembly of the Collectif des Défenseurs Sahraouis des Droits de l'Homme - CODESA (Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights defenders).He suffers from various illnesses including rheumatism, asthma, and anemia for which he has spent three months in hospital while in Enzkan prison
On 4 March 2008, Front Line issued an Urgent Appeal concerning the arrest of Yahya Mohamed el Hafed Aaza on 29 February 2008 while working in his shop in Tan-Tan, South Morocco. It was believed that the arrest was related to peaceful pro-independence demonstrations that took place two days earlier in Tan-Tan.