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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 06/02/2007 (SPS) The
Committee for the Defence of the Right to Self-determination of the
Western Sahara (CODAPSO) denounced "the savage repression"
perpetrated by the Moroccan Government last January the 23rd
against the Saharawi citizens in the village of "Mhamid El Ghezlan"
(south of Morocco), who are undertaking a sit-in of protest since
August 2006.
The CODAPSO energetically condemned "the aggression of the Moroccan
forces of repression against demonstrators who were peacefully
claiming the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and
independence", expressing its solidarity with the Saharawi citizens
in the Moroccan rural village with a Saharawi majority, the NGO
stressed in a press release on Tuesday.
It further called on the UN "to exercise pressures on Morocco to put
an end to the flagrant human rights violations in the Western Sahara
and enlarge the prerogatives of the UN’s Mission for a Referendum in
the Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include the protection of the human
rights in the occupied Saharawi territories".
CODAPSO finally demanded the "immediate and unconditional release"
of the Saharawi political prisoners and human rights activists, who
are still maintained in detention in the deferent Moroccan prisons.
(SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 061230 FEV 07 SPS |
