SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Copenhagen, 08/07/2005 (SOS) The Secretary of the Danish Socialist Youth (Socialistisk Ungdoms), Mr. Mads Lou Bendtsen, expressed Friday his organisation’s support to Saharawi people’s right to self-determination demanding the immediate release of all Saharawi political prisoners Morocco detains since the popular uprising of the Saharawi people against Moroccan colonial authorities last May and June, reported a source close to Saharawi representation in Denmark.

In his statement regarding the recent “Intifada” (uprising) of the Saharawi people in the occupied cities of Western Sahara, south of Morocco and in Moroccan universities, Mr. Mads Lou Bendtsen declared that his organisation considers that "the occupation of Western Sahara must end", demanding "the release of Saharawi political prisoners so as Saharawi people can finally live in peace".

Describing Saharawi people’s demonstrations as "peaceful uprising against the Moroccan occupation", the organisation criticised the Moroccan reaction, which is "violent" and which engendered a harsh repression of helpless civilians.

Last week, the spokesperson for foreign policy of the Danish Red-Green Alliance (RGA- Enhedlisten), Mrs. Rune Lund, condemned the brutal repression by Moroccan authorities of "the peaceful Intifada" of Saharawi population in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and in the south of Morocco, expressing its solidarity with Saharawi people’s struggle for independence, reported SPS’s correspondent from Denmark.

In a statement to the press, publicised Thursday in Copenhagen, Mrs. Lund indicated that her alliance "notes with concern the developments in Western Sahara", where Moroccan forces engaged" in brutal acts against the peaceful Intifada against the illegal occupation of Western Sahara", which was invaded and put under Moroccan colonial siege since 1975.

Many political parties, international associations and organisations calls to the raise of the military and media siege imposed on the Western Sahara and demand the undertaking of an international investigation, under the auspices of the UN, on the Moroccan human rights violations, expressing their preoccupation about the prevailing situation in the occupied zones of the non-self-governing territory, it should be recalled. (SPS)

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