Sit-in in Dajla to demand the release of Saharawi political prisoners

Dajla (occupied territories), 30/06/2005 (SPS) Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of Dajla organised, Wednesday afternoon, a sit-in of two hours in front of the seat of the Moroccan colonial administration to demanding the release of Saharawi political prisoners, the respect of human rights and the organisation of a referendum on self-determination, reported SPS’s correspondent on the ground. The demonstrators raised placards calling for the ending of colonial occupation in the territory, stopping of iniquitous trials against Saharawis, as well as the putting an end to the campaign of systematic repression against Saharawi human rights’ activists. They also were bearing pictures of Saharawi human right activist, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, still imprisoned in the Carcel Negra (black prison) in El Aaiun. They chanted slogans such as: "No other alternative to self-determination", "Long live Polisario Front", "Despite of repression we are a people that can never be exterminated", "Oh Martyr! Sleep in peace; we will carry on the struggle". More than sixteen Saharawi citizens were injured during confrontations that opposed Saharawi demonstrators last Monday the 27 of June with Moroccan forces of repression, while a persona t least was arrested and two houses broken by police. Before, last June the 11th also in Dajla, dozens injured were named and many reported arrested by Moroccan police and forces of intervention during Saharawi demonstrations in the city. The forces of repression intervened brutally to disperse this demonstration that were organised in solidarity with the detainees of the Intifada of last May. A Saharawi woman, aged 70, Mrs. Ehel Najem Fatma, alias Laribiya, was abducted by police. The city is submitted to a state of siege and the neighbourhoods of Lebrarik, Lebeichat, Kseikssat, Oum Tounsi and Al Ghoufran, inhabited by Saharawis were completely sealed by the forces of occupation who controlled the passengers. Saharawi Government called Security Council to protect Saharawi civilians against Moroccan repression, chastisement and reprisals, considering that the heavy sentences against three Saharawis by "Moroccan colonial justice", are an example of the strong measures, procedures of intimidations and terror used by the colonisers of the 21st century, it should be recalled. (SPS)