{"id":1944,"date":"2015-12-18T17:41:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T17:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/2015\/12\/18\/morocco-continues-brutal-repression-of-peaceful-protests-throughout-western-sahara\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T17:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T17:41:05","slug":"morocco-continues-brutal-repression-of-peaceful-protests-throughout-western-sahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=1944","title":{"rendered":"Morocco continues brutal repression of peaceful protests throughout Western Sahara\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1943 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_3763-2.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3763-2\" width=\"278\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_3763-2.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_3763-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_3763-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_3763-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_3763-2-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_3763-2-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/>Following reports about police threats to members of groups such as \u2018OCP Skills Sahara\u2019, \u2018The Coordination of Unemployed Saharawis\u2019 and others, Adala UK urges the Moroccan authorities not to suppress demonstrations that have been planned in Western Sahara in the coming days. Members of the Moroccan security forces, who have an appalling track record of using violence against peaceful protesters, have indicated that the police will treat those participating in protests \u2018with firmness and severity and with an iron fist\u2019.\u00a0<!--more--><br \/>\nAdala UK has received information that security agents are continuing to beat and intimidate the protesters we had reported on a few days ago. Amongst the people who were beaten in the street is the brother on an Adala UK member, Mohamed Lamine Messka. He now suffers constant pain. The current demonstrations are taking place in the context of youth protests, voicing discontent with the non-fulfilment of promises made by the Moroccan government.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest demonstration, 73 peaceful protesters were seriously injured in El Aiun and the majority of them were young women and men. There were also four reports of sexual assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports about police threats to members of groups such as \u2018OCP Skills Sahara\u2019, \u2018The Coordination of Unemployed Saharawis\u2019 and others, Adala UK urges the Moroccan authorities not to suppress demonstrations that have been planned in Western Sahara in the coming days. Members of the Moroccan security forces, who have an appalling track record of using violence against peaceful protesters, have indicated that the police will treat those participating in protests \u2018with firmness and severity and with an iron fist\u2019.\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\/1944"}],"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=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}