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Many
Saharawi human rights activists and other persons are now in very bad states
of health because of injuries they had after violent interventions against
demonstrations they were participating in the occupied cities of El Aaiun
and Smara.
In the
occupied El Aaiun 13 wounded victims were reported, including the Saharawi
human rights activists, Brahim Dahan, ex-political prisoners and President
of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Human Rights
Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH), the Deputy-President of
the same association, Mrs. Jimi El Ghalia, besides the imminent Saharawi
human rights activists, Mr. Hmad Hamad, ex-political prisoner and
Deputy-President of the Committee of Support of Self-determination for
Saharawi People, while the Saharawi human rights activist and Winner of the
Rafto Human Rights Price, Sidi Mohamed Dadach was interpellated and driven
in a police car before he was released few hours after.
Moroccan
police also arrested three other persons, Dafa Ahmed babou, Daha Rahmouni
and Mohamed Fadel El Hairech, official sources indicated.
In the
occupied city of Smara, 23 Saharawis were wounded after the Moroccan police
violent intervention against peaceful demonstrations last Sunday, and two
others were arrested, mainly, Makhloufi Mahmoud and Hamoudi Labeid, the same
source said.
The
demonstrators raised placards and chanted slogans asking for the release of
the Saharawi political prisoners, the organisation of a self-determination
referendum and asked for the revealing of information on the fate of more
than 500 Saharawi disappeared and more than 151 prisoners of war.
The tension is in its extreme limits in both occupied cities where the
Moroccan forces seal the main streets and arrest persons in their houses,
eye witnesses said. (SPS)
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