El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), May 16,2014 (SPS) - Moroccan security forces intervened ‘violently’ to disperse a peaceful demonstration organized Thursday in the occupied city of El Aaiun using batons and stones leaving many casualties among the demonstrators.
According to statement of the Ministry of the occupied Territories and Community Abroad, the demonstration comes in the framework of of the expansion of the mandate of the MINURSO to include human rights monitoring an release of Sahrawi political prisoners in the Moroccan prisons.
The streets and neighbourhoods of the city witnessed intensive security presence. (SPS)
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