Geneva, March 16, 2015 (SPS) The Saharawi community in Europe organized on the sidelines of the 28th Session of the United Nations Council of Human Rights in Geneva a demonstration to demand the protection of human rights in Western Sahara, said a statement of the Polisario Front representation in Switzerland.
The demonstrators held banners and chanted slogans calling for the respect of human rights in Western Sahara and extension of the mandate of MINURSO (UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) to this mission.
The representative of the Polisario Front in Switzerland, Maima Abdelsalam, vice president of the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Violations of Human Rights (ASVDH), Ghalia Djimi, representative of the office of the Saharawi community in Europe, Sidi Brahim Kharachi, attended the event besides supporters of the Saharawi cause. (SPS)
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