Chahid El Hafed, 23/10/2006 (SPS) More than 500 Saharawi youngsters were pushed to leave the Western Sahara to exile this year because of the Moroccan repression, while those still living in the occupied territories are expose to pressures and torture to push them opt for the same choice, indicated the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Communities in a press release publicised on Sunday.

"The youngsters who were force to abandon the occupied territories because of the repression are around 500 persons since the summer of 2005 to this date", the press release underlined.

"The population, especially the youth, is submitted to a generalised aggression perpetrated by the different Moroccan repressive corpses within the absence of international observers", the press release underlined, adding that the attention of the authorities of occupation is to "oeuvre so as to make them disappear from the occupied cities by arresting dozens of youth each night and submitting them to torture".

Enumerating « barbarous methods of torture", the text reports cases of "rape with truncheons and other materials, injections of chemical products that cause a loss of consciousness for hours, handcuffing with padlocks to doors, or to chairs and facing the wall, or just tiding their hands and feet together in the way of =the roast chicken=, a method that is well known and exercised by the tortures ".

"To some detainees, they projects films of rape practiced on girls and some kids and videos of tortures that ends with the death of the victims", the same press release indicates.

"During interrogatories, the young Saharawis are threatened to be buried alive or se on fire, as the Moroccans did with Saaidi Salek, with a warning that the next time they will be submitted to even worst tortures", the text adds.

Finally, they are all « advised » by the Moroccan torturers "to abandon the territory to Spain or even to Polisario Front, if they want to save their lives".

On another hand, the press release indicated that "the Moroccan Gendarmerie officers and officers of other corpses, in agreements with the heads of the Moroccan crime organisations, receives money for each migrant who got in the small boats that start their dangerous trip starting from Saharawi". (SPS)

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Bojador (occupied territories), 23/10/2006 (SPS) The Saharawis in the occupied city of Bojador expressed their solidarity with the Saharawi political prisoners, denouncing "the tortures an ill-treatments" to which the Saharawi human rights activist, Mohamed Tahlil, was subjected last Thursday by the Moroccan forces of occupation.

According to first information, Mr. Tahlil was arrested then led to a police station in Bojador where he was savagely tortured before he was transferred to another police station in he occupied city of El Aaiun to "underwent all forms of tortures", indicated a press release publicised by citizens of the city of Bojador on Monday, of which SPS received a copy.

The Saharawi ex-political prisoner was released on Sunday after having been abandoned in the middle of the street, in a « pitiful state » by the Moroccan forces of repression, the text added.

Condemning this new violation, the Saharawi citizens of the occupied city of Bojador called on the international human rights organisations to « urgently intervene » so as to help put an end to the Moroccan repression in the occupied zones of the Western Sahara against Saharawi population that is only claiming peacefully for its right to self-determination and independence".

On another hand, demonstrations, advocating the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation, were organised on Saturday in the occupied city of Smara, according to concordant sources, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the first Martyr of the Intifada of Independence, the late Lembarki Hamdi Mahjoub, a young Saharawi who as tortured to death by Moroccan agents in the middle of the street last October 2005.

The Moroccan forces of repression, quickly intervened against these peaceful demonstrators, who were also lifting the national flags of the Saharawi Republic an picture of the Martyr, the same sources indicated. (SPS)

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