El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), August 4, 2011(SPS) – Moroccan police agents in uniforms assaulted Wednesday Sahrawi citizen Mukhtar Tarfawi before his shop in Matallah neighbourhood in the occupied city of El Aaiun, without knowing the real reasons that led them to commit flagrant violations against him, according to a source of the Ministry of the Occupied Territoriesand Communities Abroad.
According to eyewitnesses, the police suddenly attacked the young Sahrawi in a small café in the mentioned district, which sees from time to time peaceful demonstrations demanding the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination, often result in confrontations between demonstrators and members of the Moroccan police and auxiliary forces in his shop, where they beat him.
The blatant assault on the young Sahrawi caused serious injuries at the level of the head and severe pain in the back, led to his evacuation to to the local hospital-Hasan ibn al-Mahdi in the city. (SPS)
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