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Chahid El Hafed,
17/03/2007 (SPS) A Saharawi human rights organisation called on the
Security Council, on Saturday, to "put pressures on the Moroccan
State" so as it enable "the Saharawi people to exercise its right to
self-determination", and denounce the heavy condemnations pronounced
by the Moroccan justice against the Saharawi political detainees.
The Collective of the Saharawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA)
called on the Council, in a press release, "o put pressures on the
Moroccan State so as to enable the Saharawi people to exercise its
right t self-determination through a free, just and honest
referendum under the aegis of the UN".
On another hand, the Collective asked the UN Security Council to
intervene in order to "ensure the (international) protection to the
Saharawis and to the human rights defenders".
CODESA appeal intervenes few days after the heavy condemnation
against a Saharawi political prisoner, Laaroussi Chbaida, who was
sentenced 18 months imprisonment by the Moroccan justice, which has
a week before condemned six Saharawi human rights activists and
political prisoners in the occupied city of El Aaiun.
Amnesty International, it should be recalled, had immediately
reacted to those trials, estimating that they were unjust. (SPS)
020/090/700 171420 MAR 07 SPS
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