AFAPREDESA

The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared

At least one person arrested in the occupied city of Smara

Nafi Lebatt, was arrested on Sunday evening by the Moroccan colonial forces in the occupied city of Smara, during a demonstration organised in the Saharawi cultural capital, calling to "the immediate withdrawal" of the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara, SPS’s correspondent on the ground reported.

Smara (occupied territories), 25/04/2006 (SPS)

The demonstrators raised the national flags of the Saharawi Republic and chanted slogans asking for "the self-determination of the Saharawi people and independence", the same source indicated.

The Moroccan repressive forces immediately intervened making excessive use of force to disperse the demonstrators claiming for the "unconditional release" of the political prisoners in Moroccan custody.

On another hand, the young Saharawi citizen, Ahmed Taleb Oumar, was victim of aggression by 4 Moroccan GUS’s agent, on Monday, according to eye witnesses.

The victim was "badly tortured before been transported to the hospital of the city where he was ill-treated anew by the Moroccan doctors", the same sources added.

Moreover, the Saharawi unemployed graduate in Moroccan southern city, Mhamid El Ghizlan, organised a demonstration "denouncing their forcible recruiting in the Moroccan army.