Washington D.C, 08/07/2006 (SPS) The US Council for Human Rights, the Canadian Centre for Human Rights and the Coalition for Dignity and Freedom (Madrid) condemned, last week, the "serious human rights violations committed by Morocco against the Moroccan Islamist movement of El Adl Walihsan (Justice and charity), according to information publicised on the website of the organisation.

This movement, the most popular in Morocco, which legitimacy is recognised by Rabat and which is recognised for its peaceful policy, is suffering since its creation brutal campaigns of repression by the Moroccan authorities.

In this respect, the Moroccan Government started "a dangerous increasing offensive" against the movement by waves of arrests that reached more than 3.000 of its militants, men, women and kids in addition to the devastation of families residencies, closure of the movements centres and censorship against its websites inside the country.

The three human rights organisations denounced in their press releases, "the human rights violations perpetrated by the Moroccan State" and expressed their "unconditional support to the movement El Adl Walihsan", an invited human rights organisations an activists to intervene so as to "put an end to these repressive acts exercised by the Moroccan authorities". (SPS)

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