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

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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 sy

Polisario Front estimates that the behaviour of Morocco endangers the validity of the international system

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New York, 30/09/2004 (SPS) Polisario Front estimated that the "unacceptable behaviour" of Morocco "constitutes a serious challenge to the very consistency, validity and credibility of the international system represented by the United Nations", read a memorandum by the Saharawi political organisation addressed to the Member States of the United Nations reunited in the 59th Session of the General Assembly. The document notes that for thirty years of its "illegal military occupation" of Western Sahara, "Morocco has not only reneged on its commitments under the settlement plan that "it had accep