Mohamed Elmoutaoikil

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Mohamed Elmoutaoikil (also transliterated as Mohammad al-Mutawakil, etc) is a Sahrawi human rights-defender active in Western Sahara, born in 1966 in Assa in southern Morocco. He is presently in jail after he was arrested in demonstrations during the "Independence Intifada". He was jailed in 1992 for one year after Sahrawi demonstrations in his hometown of Assa, and has been arrested several times since then. He is a father of three.

On December 14, 2005, Elmoutaoikil was sentenced to 10 months in prison by a Moroccan court in El-Aaiun, in a mass trial with 13 other Sahrawi activists. Just before the trial, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports that expressed concerns that he was not getting fair trials, and may be a prisoner of conscience. After the trial, Amnesty reiterated strong criticisms, and said that it was strengthened in its claim that Elmoutaoikil and the others is a probable prisoners of conscience.