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SPS OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION /FRANCE/SOLIDARITY French associations call on the UN to intervene against the repression in the Western Sahara 07.07.05
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Paris, 07/07/2006 (SPS) Many French associations called on the United
Nations, Monday, to intervene against the Moroccan repression which is
especially targeting the Saharawi human rights defenders.
The French Association of Friendship with the Peoples of Africa (AFASPA), The
Association of the Friends of the Saharawi Republic (AARASD) and the French
Committee for the respect of Freedom and Human Rights in the Western Sahara (CORELSO),
denounced that Morocco is trying to "promote a plan of autonomy for the Western
Sahara that violates the international legality" while it is "intensifying the
repression in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, which is put under
complete Medias black-out".
Many Spanish delegations were not allowed in the occupied territories of the
Western Sahara, a delegation of the European Parliament is not allowed to visit
the territory for months so far", they recalled, noting that "the leaders of the
Saharawi human rights associations are the first targets to the Moroccan
repression".
The French associations gave example with the case of "Brahim Sabbar, the
Secretary general of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant
Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH) and
correspondent of Amnesty International, in addition to other senior members of
the same association, who were attacked by the Moroccan security forces and
imprisoned".
"The peaceful demonstrations by citizens and students are still violently
repressed, the Saharawi detainees are tortured in prisons, their houses are
ransacked", the French associations stressed, condemning "this repression, which
reached unequalled scales since the visit of the delegation of the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights".
"This violence against the
Saharawi people must stop", they affirmed before asking the UN to mandate its
mission, MINURSO, to be also responsible for the protection of the Saharawi
population.
The French associations demanded "the quick release of the Saharawi political
prisoners, and to be given, for the moment, the status of prisoners of opinion".
"The UN Security Council must pay all efforts for the implementation of the
fundamental principles of the United Nations, mainly the peoples right to govern
themselves through a free self-determination referendum", the associations
underlined. (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 071432 jul 06 SPS
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SPS OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION Three Saharawis abducted in El Aaiun (Associations)
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El Aaiun
(occupied territories), 07/07/2006 (SPS) Three Saharawis, Bellal Seghri,
Boukhari Khabeid and Beida Mansour, were abducted by the forces of police in
different streets of El Aaiun, the occupied capital of the Western Sahara, in
July the 3rd and the 4th, Local Saharawi human rights associations declared in
press releases.
the two first were abducted at 21.00 GMT in the evening if July the 3rd to the
early morning of July the 4th in the centre of El Aaiun, while the third citizen
was abducted by the Royal gendarmerie in the morning of July the 4th
at 11.00 GMT in “La Playa d'El Aaiun”, it was indicated.
"The different Moroccan forces of security are competing which one of them can
get confessions from the Saharawis who struggle peacefully for the independence
of their country which is militarily occupied by the Moroccan army and
administration since October the 31st of October 1975", it was
regretted.
On another hand sporadic demonstrations took place during the week in the
occupied city of El Aaiun, Smara and Mhamid Ghezlan, in which the demonstrators
raised the Saharawi flags and chanted slogans asking for the self-determination
and independence of the Western Sahara, concordant sources reported.
(SPS)
010/090/110/TRD 071754 jul 06 SPS
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