Career
He is often called "North African Mandela" or "Sahrawi Mandela". After two years of imprisonment (first in a military base in Marrakech, then in a subterranean cell), he was forced to join the Moroccan Army. Daddach was again arrested & badly injured in August 1979, when he tried to defect with other soldiers, and sentenced to death on April 7, 1980 for high treason.
He was imprisoned in Kenitra prison.
Amnesty International designated him a prisoner of conscience, and other human rights organizations also called for his release. In 1994, his death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment, and in 2001, he was freed following a royal amnesty by Mohammed VI of Morocco, who described it as coming from "affection for the sons of the Sahara".
She presently lives in exile in the refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria. In 2009, he was awarded with the Human Rights Award of the Badajoz Bar Association, for his defense of Human Rights.
The prize was given by Guillermo Fernández Vara, president of Extremadura.
According to the Association de soutien à un référendum libre et régulier au Sahara Occidental (ARSO), he was repeatedly pressured and harassed by Moroccan security services after his release. On 29 April 2013, he was one of the nine Sahrawis injured during demonstrations in El Aaiun. Daddach needed hospital attention for a wound in one of his knees.
