Page 56  Continuation of the military, media and security embargo on the area as Morocco intensifies its siege following the invasion of the Gdeim Izik Camp of the displaced persons with its resultant infractions in occupied El-Aaiun;  Use of live bullets against unarmed Sahrawi civilians resulting in the death of some of them (see Annex );  Continuation of acts of abduction and forced disappearance of Sahrawi citizens and human rights advocates (see Annex 5 on the 15 abductees);  Continuation of torture and degrading practices against abductees and detainees from Gdeim Izik Camp. Complaints of rape were submitted by some victims;  Continuation of political detention against Sahrawi citizens and human rights advocates (see Annex 6 and the list of Sahrawi political prisoners);  Continuation of arraigning Sahrawi citizens and human rights advocates before Moroccan military courts (see Annex 1: Case of 23 political prisoners in Moroccan prison near Rabat);  Continuation of political trials of Sahrawi human rights advocates and students (Trial of the 7 Sahrawi human rights activists in Casablanca, Morocco;  Escalation of torture, violence, abuse and punishment in cells against Sahrawi prisoners without medical treatment and without presenting their complaints to the Moroccan judiciary;  Continuation of harassment of foreign observers and journalists as well as direct assault on 13 Spanish observers in El-Aaiun (see Annex 8);  Continuation of the Moroccan judiciary‟s reluctance to open investigations into the complaints lodged by victims and their families against killings, abduction, torture, rape, arrest, invasion of homes and destruction of properties;  Continuation of refusal of the judicial authorities with impunity, to deal with Moroccan officials implicated some of whom have even been promoted;

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