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These
arrests took place in Smara, where students raised the flags of the Saharawi
Republic and chanted slogans in favour of the independence of the Western
Sahara, before they were "savagely" dispersed by the Moroccan forces of
repression.
The
Moroccan forces of occupation arrested six Saharawi demonstrators, mainly
Mohamed Mouradi, Soukeina Moulaye Mohamed Salem, Yaya and her sister Najat
Moustapha El Kheir Beilal, Moulimnine Enna Dech Totay and Mina Mohamed Si
Lehbib Cheikh. The police also ransacked the house of Moustapha El Kheir
Beilal and tortured the members of the family.
In the
occupied city of El Aaiun the Moroccan forces of repression arrested the
young Saharawi, Aziz Mohamed Mouftah, during a demonstration organised by
dozens Saharawi citizens advocating the right to self-determination.
In the
occupied city of Dajla the Moroccan police arrested the Saharawi citizen,
Habib Ahmed Mokhtar, who is married and father to nine children, in his
house and tortured him in front of his family before they took him in
inhumane conditions to a police station then transported to an unknown
destination, a source close to his family reported.
As a
reaction to these set of abusive arrests, the Saharawi citizens in Smara
improvised a sit-in in front of the police station of the city where the
arrested youngsters were detained, asking for their immediate release.
The
Moroccan colonial authorities were then forced to release the arrested
Saharawi students after the have tortured them, interrogated and after they
were threatened by the famous Moroccan torturers Bardan, Kamal Adi and Rabi
of transfer to the Carcel Negra in El Aaiun.
On another
hand, in Agadir (south Morocco) a Saharawi student, Laroussi Mohamed Salem
Yahdih alias (Hadi Laroussi) was arrested in the University of 'Ibn Zohr' by
Moroccan militias backed by agents of secret services in civil clothes, it
was indicated.
The victim
was before arrested because he participated to a peaceful sit-in organised
by the Saharawi students advocating the Saharawi people’s right to
self-determination, and was threatened by Moroccan agents of assassination
if he participates in any future demonstrations. (SPS)
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