Page 61 universal jurisdiction versus Moroccan civilian and military officials. This complaint is being looked into by the famous Spanish Judge, Battazar Garzon. 188. Morocco has seriously violated the provisions of the Fourth General Convention on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts. These violations are serious as they affect the responsibility of United Nations not only for ensuring international peace and security and protection of the principles of justice, but also putting pressure on Morocco to respect the human rights of the Western Sahara people. d) 189. Political Arrests Morocco has continued its campaign of excessive arrests and fabricated allegations against Sahrawi human rights advocates, exposing them to legal pursuits devoid of the simplest conditions of fair trial because of their stance on the issue of Western Sahara and participation in peaceful protests demanding the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination. 190. Although a group of Sahrawi political prisoners have been released after protracted trials, there are still other groups under political detention in the various Moroccan prisons among them the human rights activist Yahya Mohamed Hafez Ea‟aza, member of the Human Rights Advocates Grouping CODESA who is serving a 15- year jail term with hard labour (see List No. 6 attached to this report). 191. This year has witnessed hundreds of political arrests within the ranks of Sahrawi civilians of different age groups, the majority of them against military invasion of the Gdeim Izik Camp and demonstrations in El-Aaiun and Merza on 8 November 2010. There were more than 500 male and female detainees and search warrants were issued in the case of tens of Sahrawi citizens with legal pursuits of 176 male and female detainees, 23 of them arraigned before a military court in Rabat, Morocco and 153 before the Court of the First Instance and the Court of Appeal in El-Aaiun.