Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories)- President Mohamed Abdelaziz has informed United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the escalation of human rights abuses by Morocco and the ongoing suppression of the peaceful protest movement in the occupied territories of Western Sahara by the Kingdom's authorities.
"At the outset of 2016, Morocco intensified suppression and torture against defenceless Saharawi civilians, in addition to the state of siege and expulsion of international observers who tried to visit the occupied territories of Western Sahara," Mohamed Abdelaziz, the president of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and the secretary general of the Polisario Front, said in a letter to Ban Ki-moon.
President Abdelaziz, in the letter, "condemned suppression against Saharawi unemployed people, on hunger strike since more than two weeks, who claim their legitimate rights that are enshrined by the United Nations Charter, especially the right to self-determination and independence." (SPS)
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