El Aaiun (occupied territories), Nov 5, 2014 (SPS) - Moroccan Court of Appeal in occupied El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, on Wednesday ruled to adjourn to November 19th the trial of the Saharawi journalist and blogger, Mahmud Al-Haisan, and political prisoner, Abdelkarim Bouchalga.
According to the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Diaspora, the two Saharawi activists were kept in pretrial detention in Sale 1 Prison for a period of four months.
On 4 July 2014, Mahmud Al-Haisan and Abdelkarim Bouchalga were arrested arbitrarily by Moroccan policemen, after they took part in a pro-independence peaceful demonstration in the occupied city of El Aaiun. (SPS)
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