El Aaiun (occupied territories), 13/08/2006 (SPS) Four persons at least were arrested and seven others wounded during demonstrations that took place from Wednesday to Saturday, in Feim el Wad (El Aaiun beach) and in the occupied city of El Aaiun, to advocate the inalienable right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence, concordant sources reported.

The Moroccan forces of repression arrested the Saharawi citizens: Mohamed Ali, Aziz El Houssein Jamaa, Abadila Hamada Sidi Mohamed, Naama Hamada Sidi Mohamed and Walid Ghafour, who was abandoned by the forces of occupation some 20 km from the occupied city, the same sources indicated.

The Moroccan colonial forces also ransacked the houses of the Saharawi citizens in the streets of Niger and 23 of May, mainly the house of the family of Mr. Hamada Sidi Mohamed Salek, breaking into the house and destroying the furniture, it was added.

On another hand, the Moroccan forces tortured the citizens: Ali Hamada, Mohamed Hamada, Cheikha Ahmed Abdelhamid, who lost consciousness during the brutal intervention in his house and his family was not allowed to transport him to hospital in an ambulance that was around the place, wile the one years old baby, Achraf, was wounded in his head, in addition to two other victims: Dada Mahjouba, Dada Maimouna.

The young Saharawis, supported by women, daily organise artistic nights in the El Aaiun beach, singing Saharawi national songs, and poems, it should be stressed.

The Moroccan colonial authorities, including a detachment of the Moroccan royal gendarmerie and auxiliary forces, destroyed many Saharawi shops, on Friday, in the summer campus 'Enil', especially the shops of many young Saharawis, who are accused by the Moroccan to be the instigators of the demonstrations in the beach, the same sources underlined.

On another hand, the President of the Committee of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDHEM) in the occupied city of Bujador, Tahlil Mohamed, was deprived from his passport by the Moroccan authorities.

The human rights activist called on all intentional organisations, Amnesty International, to intervene so as to protect his fundamental rights to free movement. (SPS)

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