SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Geneva, 12/04/2004 (SPS) A demonstration and an international conference will be organised this 16th April in front of UN's headquarters in Geneva to claim for «the self-determination to Saharawi people and for the enforcement of UN's resolutions», as well as demanding from Morocco the release of political prisoners, prisoners of war and to draw light on the fate of more than 500 Saharawi persons reported disappeared since the beginning of the conflict.

These activities, supervised by the Association of the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and Disappeared (AFAPREDESA), the Association of Saharawi Jurists, and supported by European comities of support to Saharawi people and many non-governmental organisations such as the International Bureau for the Respect of Human Rights in Western Sahara (BIRDHSO) and the International League for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples (LIDLIP), indicated a communiqué of the organisers.
 
Hundreds of Saharawis and supporters of the cause in Spain, France, Belgium and Italy will come to Geneva to demonstrate on the occasion of the 60th session of the UN's Commission for Human Rights, it was emphasised.

Under the theme «Peace and respect of human rights for Saharawi people», speakers will intervene during a conference expected to conclude the demonstration at the International Centre of Conferences in Geneva. (SPS)

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