El Aaiun (occupied territories), Jan 16, 2012 (SPS) - The Union Confederation of Saharawi Workers (CSTS) denounced Sunday in the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, the brutal repression committed against its members during a peaceful rally in solidarity with Saharawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik, in a statement a copy of it reached SPS.
The Confederation called for need to release all the Saharawi political prisoners, including those who arrested on the ground of Gdeim Izik camp, calling on the international community to dispatch an international commission of inquiry into the squalid economic, social and political conditions in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
It appealed to Spain, as the former colonizing power of Western Sahara, to assume its historic responsibilities towards the ongoing situation in the Territory, urging the new Spanish government to respond to the legitimate rights of the Saharawis.
It should be recalled that CSTS organized, in coordination with Gdeim Izik Coordination, the rally outside what is called Moroccan National Council for Human Rights in the occupied city of El Aaiun. (SPS)
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