Smara (occupied territories), Sept 30, 2012 (SPS) - The Moroccan occupying forces violently intervened Saturday against Saharawi demonstrations, who peacefully denounced the recent political arrests as well as unfair trails and arbitrary charges in the case of 14 Saharawi prisoners, informed Saharawi rights source.
The demonstrators raised flag of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and chanted slogans calling for the respect to human rights in Western Sahara and right of the Saharawi people to self-determination.
The Moroccan forces, including police and auxiliary forces elements in plain clothes, used the excessive force, batons, sticks, insults; chase the Saharawi citizens and raiding their houses like in the case of Mohamed Ould Bakar, the same source said. (SPS)
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