Aminatou Haidar condemns in Madrid "brutal repression" of two demonstrations in occupied Western Sahara
MADRID (Spain)- Saharawi human rights activist Aminatou Haidar condemned Wednesday Moroccan police "brutal repression" of two peaceful demonstrations, Monday and Tuesday, in the Saharawi occupied towns of Al-Ayun and Dakhla, making "several victims."
"Moroccan police and the secret service violently suppressed yesterday (Tuesday) a demonstration in the district of Maatallah, at the heart of Al-Ayun," the capital of Western Sahara occupied by Morocco.
The demonstration was held to welcome twelve activists while returning from a visit to refugee camps, Haidar condemned in a statement.
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Ban Ki-Moon condemns Israeli decision to construct new settlements in East Al-Quds
NEW YORK (United Nations)- The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon condemned on Tuesday in New York the decision of the Israeli Ministery of Interior to construct new houses in East Al-Quds. Ban Ki-Moon "condemns the today’s decision of the Israeli Ministry of Interior to authorise the construction of 1.600 new houses in "East Al-Quds,"" says his spokesman in a declaration released in the evening. The Secretary General reiterates that "the colonisation is illegal in virtue of international law," furthermore he underlines that it is "contrary to the Israeli obligations included in the Road Map"
and "undermines all efforts towards a viable peace process," he added.
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Sahrawi activists injured and arrested in Al-Ayun
AL-AYUN (occupied Sahrawi territories)- Sahrawi human rights activists have been injured and arrested by the Moroccan forces during a demonstration organized at the district of Maata in the occupied city of Al-Ayun to denounce the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara territories, said on Wednesday the Sahrawi news agency SPS.
The demonstrators were chanting slogans claiming the legitimate right of Sahrawi people to, self-determination and denouncing Morocco's violations of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, as well as "systematic plundering" of its natural resources, when the Moroccan forces violently intervened against them, injuring and arresting many, including five human rights activists among the members of the delegation who recently visited the Sahrawi refugee camps, the source added.
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Sheikh Al-Azhar Mohamed Sayed Tantawi dies in Riyadh
CAIRO (Egypt)- Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar (Egypt) died Wednesday of a heart attack at 82, in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), announced official media sources.
Sheikh Tantawi arrived Tuesday in Riyadh to attend the King Faisal International Prize award ceremony. He collapsed at the airport as he was about to board his flight back to Cairo and was rushed to a hospital where doctors proclaimed him dead, the sources added.
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The Sahrawi government highlights EU president position in favour “respect of human rights in Western Sahara”
CHAHID EL HAFED (Sahrawi refugees camp)- The Sahrawi Government highlighted the position of the EU Council President, Herman Van Rompuy, expressing "support to the right of the Sahrawi people to self determination and the necessity to Morocco to respect human rights in western Sahara."
"The Sahrawi government noted the position expressed by the President of the EU Council, Herman Van Rompuy, expressed on Sunday after the EU-Morocco summit affirming the EU support to a solution of the conflict in Western Sahara respecting the United Nations decisions and urged Morocco to achieve "more progress" in human rights respect in the occupied Sahrawi territories, said a communiqué of the Sahrawi Ministry of Information.
The communiqué released by SPS added that "the Sahrawi government deeply regrets at the same time that EU pursues the process of granting an advanced status to Morocco despite the flagrant violations of the international legacy and international humanitarian law and United Nations legal resolutions about the population of countries under occupation and their natural resources."
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MADRID (Spain)- Saharawi human rights activist Aminatou Haidar condemned Wednesday Moroccan police "brutal repression" of two peaceful demonstrations, Monday and Tuesday, in the Saharawi occupied towns of Al-Ayun and Dakhla, making "several victims."
"Moroccan police and the secret service violently suppressed yesterday (Tuesday) a demonstration in the district of Maatallah, at the heart of Al-Ayun," the capital of Western Sahara occupied by Morocco.
The demonstration was held to welcome twelve activists while returning from a visit to refugee camps, Haidar condemned in a statement. 
NEW YORK (United Nations)- The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon condemned on Tuesday in New York the decision of the Israeli Ministery of Interior to construct new houses in East Al-Quds. Ban Ki-Moon "condemns the today’s decision of the Israeli Ministry of Interior to authorise the construction of 1.600 new houses in "East Al-Quds,"" says his spokesman in a declaration released in the evening. The Secretary General reiterates that "the colonisation is illegal in virtue of international law," furthermore he underlines that it is "contrary to the Israeli obligations included in the Road Map"
and "undermines all efforts towards a viable peace process," he added. 
AL-AYUN (occupied Sahrawi territories)- Sahrawi human rights activists have been injured and arrested by the Moroccan forces during a demonstration organized at the district of Maata in the occupied city of Al-Ayun to denounce the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara territories, said on Wednesday the Sahrawi news agency SPS.
The demonstrators were chanting slogans claiming the legitimate right of Sahrawi people to, self-determination and denouncing Morocco's violations of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, as well as "systematic plundering" of its natural resources, when the Moroccan forces violently intervened against them, injuring and arresting many, including five human rights activists among the members of the delegation who recently visited the Sahrawi refugee camps, the source added. 
CAIRO (Egypt)- Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar (Egypt) died Wednesday of a heart attack at 82, in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), announced official media sources.
Sheikh Tantawi arrived Tuesday in Riyadh to attend the King Faisal International Prize award ceremony. He collapsed at the airport as he was about to board his flight back to Cairo and was rushed to a hospital where doctors proclaimed him dead, the sources added. 
CHAHID EL HAFED (Sahrawi refugees camp)- The Sahrawi Government highlighted the position of the EU Council President, Herman Van Rompuy, expressing "support to the right of the Sahrawi people to self determination and the necessity to Morocco to respect human rights in western Sahara."
"The Sahrawi government noted the position expressed by the President of the EU Council, Herman Van Rompuy, expressed on Sunday after the EU-Morocco summit affirming the EU support to a solution of the conflict in Western Sahara respecting the United Nations decisions and urged Morocco to achieve "more progress" in human rights respect in the occupied Sahrawi territories, said a communiqué of the Sahrawi Ministry of Information.
The communiqué released by SPS added that "the Sahrawi government deeply regrets at the same time that EU pursues the process of granting an advanced status to Morocco despite the flagrant violations of the international legacy and international humanitarian law and United Nations legal resolutions about the population of countries under occupation and their natural resources." 
