{"id":1196,"date":"2014-06-22T02:54:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T02:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2014-06-22T02:54:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T02:54:31","slug":"violence-against-peaceful-protestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Violence against peaceful protestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-909\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10987-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-909\" src=\"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10987-1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\" image of police officers in uniform and civilian clothes, throwing stones at Saharawi demonstrators\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10987-1.jpg 925w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10987-1-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10987-1-768x307.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10987-1-500x200.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>image of police officers in uniform and civilian clothes, throwing stones at Saharawi demonstrators<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">On 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0June 2014, members of Adala UK, based in Western Sahara, witnessed acts of violence committed by Moroccan police officers and plain clothes members of security agencies against Saharawi protestors in different areas of El Aiun. This included the use of stones and batons. Moroccan forces blocked access to the city centre and cut off the electricity supply to some neighbourhoods.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Adala UK members sought refuge in the house of a Saharawi family for two hours as they were unable to leave the area because of the police blockade in the surrounding streets.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Sources at the hospital and other eye witnesses reported to Adala UK that several injured people, amongst them minors, had been denied medical attention.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Adala UK urges the Moroccan authorities:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Not to deny urgently needed medical attention to the victims of violent attacks<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">To immediately stop its security forces from using violence against peaceful protesters<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 22nd\u00a0June 2014, members of Adala UK, based in Western Sahara, witnessed acts of violence committed by Moroccan police officers and plain clothes members of security agencies against Saharawi protestors in different areas of El Aiun. This included the use of stones and batons. Moroccan forces blocked access to the city centre and cut off the electricity supply to some neighbourhoods. \u00a0 Adala UK members sought refuge in the house of a Saharawi family for two hours as they were unable to leave the area because of the police blockade in the surrounding streets. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}