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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;