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were turned into barracks where the army, the gendarme and paramilitaries linked with
each other. Some of the people were interrogated before being sent to Police and
Gendarme cells.
On 12 November 2010, the Moroccan authorities announced the death of a Sahrawi
citizen arrested on 8 November 2010 called Ibrahim El-Dawdi (40 years old) married
with two children at the military hospital of El-Aaiun. He was buried under mysterious
circumstances.
On 15 November 2010, tens of Sahrawis the majority of them youth, were arraigned
before El-Aaiun Court of Appeal. They were in a terrible condition as a result of torture
and were almost barefooted and dressed in their rag tag outfits smelling bad with the
wounds of some without bandage according to their lawyers. Most of them minors,
were then released but some were kept for investigation whilst some others were taken
to La Careel Prison in El-Aaiun and some appeared before the Military Court in Rabat.
The third group had their duration of custody extended.
The arrests connected with the storming of the Camp of the displaced Sahrawis
continued and according to statistics that have not been updated:
160 Sahrawis in the local prison of La Careel Negra Prison
El-Aaiun,
Western Sahara;
20 others in Salé Prison, Morocco;
12 Sahrawis temporarily released;
Before dragging the Sahrawis following the raid on Gdein Ezik Camp to the courts, a lot
of them were in the local prison in El-Aaiun, Western Sahara whilst some were kept in
different prisons in Morocco.
They were carried on board trains belonging to the
Fosbucra’a, a phosphate extraction mines Company in Bu cra’a, East El-Aaiun. used
by the Moroccan authorities on 8 November 2010.