Birlehlou (Liberated Territories), August 25, 2014 (SPS) - Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz has urged United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to intervene immediately and take all necessary measures to protect a delegation of Sahrawi human rights activists in the airport of Casablanca in Morocco upon their return from the Sahrawi refugee camps.
In an urgent letter to the UN secretary general, President Abdelaziz to "intervene to protect the delegation of 52 human rights activists were ill-treated on Friday by the Moroccan security services at the airport of Casablanca after their visit of Sahrawi refugee camps and their participation in the summer conference in Algeria's Boumerdes (50-km east of Algiers).
The Sahrawi president who "strongly denounced the Moroccan practices against the Sahrawi human rights activists in Casablanca airport," underlined that the Moroccan forces "who continue their repression against the Sahrawis in the occupied territories and in other cities of Morocco and preventing international observers and journalists from entering the territory, isolated the Sahrawi delegation from other passengers and locked them up at Casablanca airport."
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