El Aaiun (occupied territories), June 16, 2014 (SPS) - Dozen Saharawis were injured Sunday by the Moroccan repression forces, following a peaceful demonstration they held to call for a human rights mechanism within the MINURSO mandate in the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara.
The Saharawi demonstrators demanded that a human rights mechanism be included to the prerogatives of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), calling for the release of all Saharawi political prisoners.
According to a Saharawi right source, the demonstrators were pelted with stones, beaten with sticks and batons, kicked, slapped and verbally assaulted by the Moroccan forces of repression.
This violent intervention by Moroccan security forces has left injuries of varying severity among the Saharawi demonstrators.
Following is the list of the victims;
Lamjad Lili, Koria Shbeik, Mbraka Alina Baali, Mariem Bourhimi, Galia Ameir, Hayat Jaldi, Niha Labaidi, Gali Lehbib, Sidi Mohamed Dadach, Ali Mreizik, Bachri Ben Taleb, Abdelaziz Abyay, Lahweig Dahan, Sleima Limam, Aziza Biza, Fatimatu Dahwar, Tagi Mashdoufi, Mahmud Al-Ayachi, Glana Boumajruta, Zeina Chatuki, Ali Saaduni, Sidi Mohamed Ould El-Ouali, Hdaidhm Larousi, Zahra Baad, Zahra Lakwara, Dah Mastafa, Said Haddad, Mohamed Biza, Ali Fal Hafdalla and Fatimatu Al-Heirch. (SPS)
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