Page 66 199. This has also affected the Sahrawi Society of Victims of Violations of Human Rights ASVDH even though it has held its Constituent Assembly on 7 May 2005 and despite the fact that a legal decision was issued in its favour by the two administrative courts in Agddir and Marrakesh. 200. Similarly, the Society of the Sahrawi Unemployed Persons established in March 2020 in El-Aaiun has been prevented from carrying out is activities since August 2002 after the detention and trial of its members and ransacking of their headquarters. 201. This has affected all the associations and civil society organizations of human rights activists and former political prisoners. 2. 202. Freedom of Expression and the Right to Peaceful Demonstration and Protest Morocco continued in recent years to prevent Sahrawi citizens from exercising the right to demonstrate and protest peacefully for purposes of self-determination and demand for their economic, social and cultural rights in El-Aaiun, Marsa, Samara and Bojador. This has affected ceremonies for welcoming Sahrawi delegates coming from the Sahrawi refugee camps and some foreign observers. The Moroccan authorities denied the Sahrawi civilians and foreign sympathisers their freedom of expression and the right to peaceful demonstration and protest, by:  Using excessive force;  Recruitment of militias made up of Moroccan citizens against Sahrawi civilians;  Invasion of homes and ransacking them;  Damaging and commandeering vehicles of demonstrators.